Motivational Quotes

Laughter

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

- e e cummings

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Holden, Robert

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

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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

Edgar Watson Howe

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

Johnson, Samuel

11.

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

Byron, Lord

12.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

13.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

14.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

15.

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

16.

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

Luther, Martin

17.

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

Bodett, Tom

18.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

19.

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

Addison, Joseph

20.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

21.

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

Cousins, Norman

22.

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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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

24.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

25.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

26.

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 who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

30.

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

Stephen King

31.

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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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

33.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

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

West, Mae

35.

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

Twain, Mark

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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

40.

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

41.

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

Kundera, Milan

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

43.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Balzac, Honore De

45.

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

Joseph Addison

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

Boswell, James

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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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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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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Seneca