Motivational Quotes

Laughter

He who laughs, lasts!

- Mary Pettibone Poole

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Paul, Jean

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

Joseph Addison

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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 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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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

11.

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

Boswell, James

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

James, William

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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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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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

Eastman, Max

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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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

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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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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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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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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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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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

Byron, Lord

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

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

Holden, Robert

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Twain, Mark

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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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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