Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Eastman, Max

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Barrymore, Ethel

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?

Betty White

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

Joseph Addison

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 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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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

Rochlin, Harriet

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I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.

Mizner, Wilson

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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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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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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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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Thurber, James

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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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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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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

The Talmud

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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

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Byron, Lord

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

Luther, Martin

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

Bill Nye

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Holden, Robert

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

Twain, Mark