Motivational Quotes

Laughter

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

- John Masefield

Best Quotes about Laughter

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Luther, Martin

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

Paul, Jean

Laughter -- An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

Bierce, Ambrose

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

Stephen King

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Joseph Addison

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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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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 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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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 closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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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 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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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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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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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter -- loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

Osler, Sir William

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Eastman, Max

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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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Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer.

Rochlin, Harriet

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Bodett, Tom

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

Holden, Robert

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

Kundera, Milan

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.