Motivational Quotes

Laughter

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

- e e cummings

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

West, Mae

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -- hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

Thurber, James

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

Seneca

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

Rochlin, Harriet

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

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

Paul, Jean

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

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

Bob Newhart

11.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

12.

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

Twain, Mark

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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

14.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb, French

18.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

19.

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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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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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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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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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

25.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

31.

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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You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself.

Barrymore, Ethel

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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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She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Holden, Robert

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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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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Larry Gelbart

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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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

Eastman, Max

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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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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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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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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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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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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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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