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

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

The Talmud

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Boswell, James

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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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We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?

Betty White

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

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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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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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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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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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Edgar Watson Howe

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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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 laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -- hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

Thurber, James

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

Luther, Martin

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

Balzac, Honore De

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The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

Kundera, Milan

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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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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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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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Osler, Sir William

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

Twain, Mark

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I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Holden, Robert

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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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 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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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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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 is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti