Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

Howe, Edgar Watson

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Holden, Robert

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

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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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 closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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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 on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Paul, Jean

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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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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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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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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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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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 flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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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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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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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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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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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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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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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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

Jimmy Buffett

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