Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Thurber, James

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

Larry Gelbart

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

Barrymore, Ethel

The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

Carlyle, Thomas

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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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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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Holden, Robert

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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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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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Joseph Addison

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

The Talmud

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

Holden, Robert

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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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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 burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Proverb, French

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Twain, Mark

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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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.