Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Holden, Robert

Best Quotes about Laughter

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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

Proverb, French

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Betty White

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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

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

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 laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

17.

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

18.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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

Larry Gelbart

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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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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

Kundera, Milan

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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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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Jay Leno

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

Holden, Robert

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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

Joseph Addison

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

Thurber, James

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

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We don't laugh because we're happy -- we're happy because we laugh.

James, William

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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