Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Laughter is by definition healthy.

- Doris Lessing

Best Quotes about Laughter

Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

Twain, Mark

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

Lincoln, Abraham

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Boswell, James

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

Bill Nye

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

Paul, Jean

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

13.

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

Cousins, Norman

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The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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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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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

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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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Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.

The Talmud

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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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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A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

Joseph Addison

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You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.

Jay Leno

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Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

28.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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The earth laughs in flowers.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

30.

It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

West, Mae

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Laughter does not seem to be a sin, but it leads to sin.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.

South, Bishop Robert

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If you can laugh at it then you can live with it

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To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

Balzac, Honore De

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You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Stephen King

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent relieves we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

Connery, Sean

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.