Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

- Graffiti

Best Quotes about Laughter

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

The Talmud

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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

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

Edgar Watson Howe

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

Joseph Addison

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

Cousins, Norman

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

Byron, Lord

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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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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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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.

Jay Leno

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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Eastman, Max

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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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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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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 malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Seneca