Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Larry Gelbart

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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

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

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

The earth laughs in flowers.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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

Holden, Robert

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself.

Barrymore, Ethel

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Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

Connery, Sean

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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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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Twain, Mark

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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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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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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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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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A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Byron, Lord

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

Paul, Jean

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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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

Holden, Robert

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

Cousins, Norman

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Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

Bill Nye

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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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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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Joseph Addison

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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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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield