Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Joseph Addison

Best Quotes about Laughter

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

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

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

Betty White

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

The Talmud

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

Byron, Lord

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

Larry Gelbart

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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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 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 shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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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

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Eastman, Max

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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 closest thing to the grace of God.