Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

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

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

Boswell, James

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

Stephen King

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

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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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

Larry Gelbart

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Paul, Jean

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Bill Nye

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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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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Twain, Mark

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

Balzac, Honore De

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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

Byron, Lord

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Thurber, James

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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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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Luther, Martin