Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

- Koran, The

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Kundera, Milan

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.

Peter Ustinov

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Byron, Lord

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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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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Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagious: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop.

Holden, Robert

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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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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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

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

Larry Gelbart

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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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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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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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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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We don't laugh because we're happy -- we're happy because we laugh.

James, William

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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Jay Leno

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Paul, Jean

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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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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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

Twain, Mark

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

Joseph Addison

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The earth laughs in flowers.