Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Joseph Addison

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has heard me laugh.

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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

Thurber, James

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

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Betty White

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

Proverb, French

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Stephen King

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

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

Luther, Martin

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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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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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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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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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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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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

Byron, Lord

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

Twain, Mark

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Boswell, James

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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If you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may say with confidence that he is a good man.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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

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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

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre 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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There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.

Gogol, Nikolai Vasilyevich