Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Laughter is inner jogging.

- Norman Cousins

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

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

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Twain, Mark

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

Paul, Jean

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

Byron, Lord

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

Bill Nye

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

Luther, Martin

11.

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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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

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Joseph Addison

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

Balzac, Honore De

18.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

19.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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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 the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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

James, William

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

Larry Gelbart

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Proverb, French

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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 can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer.

Rochlin, Harriet

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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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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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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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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Seneca

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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 higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 man isn't poor if he can still laugh.

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

The Talmud

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

41.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.