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 best way to make somebody's heart beat.

Holden, Robert

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Joseph Addison

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

Barrymore, Ethel

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Addison, Joseph

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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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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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

Byron, Lord

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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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It is easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

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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 earth laughs in flowers.

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

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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

James, William

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Paul, Jean

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

Twain, Mark

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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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If you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may say with confidence that he is a good man.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Bill Nye

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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

Kundera, Milan

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Eastman, Max

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

Mizner, Wilson

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

Luther, Martin

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette