Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

- Cousins, Norman

Best Quotes about Laughter

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

Byron, Lord

It is easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

If you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may say with confidence that he is a good man.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Laughter -- An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

Bierce, Ambrose

We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the yak, the belly laugh, and the dozen other labels for the roll- em-in-the-aisles gagerissimo. This is the kind of laugh that delights actors, directors, and producers, but dismays writers of comedy because it is the laugh that often dies in the lobby. The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

Thurber, James

If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

Jimmy Buffett

One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

Mencken, H. L.

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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might of been.

Hazlitt, William

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No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.

Paul, Jean

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter -- loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

Osler, Sir William

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The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Bodett, Tom

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There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.

Gogol, Nikolai Vasilyevich

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams and stamps its feet, and sets the bells jangling in the next town. Laughter in all its ignorance and cruelty. Laughter with the seed of Satan in it. It tramples upon shrines; the belly-roarer. It roars, it yells, it is delirious: and yet it is as cold as ice. It has no humor. It is naked noise and naked malice.

Peake, Mervyn

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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.

Hitchcock, Raymond

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The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.

Baudrillard, Jean

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.

Mandino, Og

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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

Larry Gelbart

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We don't laugh because we're happy -- we're happy because we laugh.

James, William

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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I am persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more so when he laughs, it adds something to this fragment of life.

Sterne, Laurence

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There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.

Dietrich, Marlene

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One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Addison, Joseph

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Laughter is the best way to make somebody's heart beat.

Holden, Robert

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If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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People who laugh actually live longer than those who don't laugh. Few persons realize that health actually varies according to the amount of laughter.

Walsh, Dr. James A

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I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.

Burns, Robert

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The human race has but one really affective weapon, and that is laughter.

Twain, Mark

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

Chaplin, Charlie

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

Addison, Joseph

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The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.

Rice, Anne

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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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Laughing is not always the proof of a mind at ease.

Proverb, French

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

Cousins, Norman