Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer.

Rochlin, Harriet

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

I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

Eastman, Max

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

Addison, Joseph

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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

Proverb, French

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has heard me laugh.

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Byron, Lord

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

Twain, Mark

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I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.

Peter Ustinov

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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 by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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

The Talmud

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

Twain, Mark

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Bob Newhart

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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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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I always knew I would look back at the times I'd cried and laugh, but I never knew that I'd look back at the times I'd laughed and cry.

Prowdzik, Shaun

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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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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You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

Holden, Robert

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