Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

- Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

Johnson, Samuel

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Larry Gelbart

There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Bodett, Tom

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Proverb, French

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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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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Betty White

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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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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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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 more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Eastman, Max

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

Balzac, Honore De

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Seneca

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

Holden, Robert

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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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 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 is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim