Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Joseph Addison

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

Luther, Martin

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

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

Thurber, James

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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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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

Mencken, H. L.

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Twain, Mark

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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 the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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

Cousins, Norman

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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

Jay Leno

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Bodett, Tom

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

Holden, Robert

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Paul, Jean

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

Eastman, Max

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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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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 shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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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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