Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Holden, Robert

Best Quotes about Laughter

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Bob Newhart

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

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

James, William

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

Jay Leno

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

Thurber, James

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

13.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

The Talmud

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

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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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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

Paul, Jean

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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 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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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

28.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

29.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Holden, Robert

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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 -- 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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Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

Larry Gelbart

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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