Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Laughter

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Laughter -- An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Holden, Robert

There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Bill Nye

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

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

Paul, Jean

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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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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Proverb, French

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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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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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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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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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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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 gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Bob Newhart

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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

Cousins, Norman

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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

The Talmud

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

Eastman, Max

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

James, William

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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.