Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Eastman, Max

Best Quotes about Laughter

Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagious: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop.

Holden, Robert

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Jimmy Buffett

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

Larry Gelbart

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Johnson, Samuel

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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.

Luther, Martin

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Byron, Lord

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

The Talmud

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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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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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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

Seneca

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

Paul, Jean

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Cousins, Norman

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

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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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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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 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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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 earth laughs in flowers.

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

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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, 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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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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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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