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

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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

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

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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Johnson, Samuel

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

Seneca

There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.

Dietrich, Marlene

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

The Talmud

11.

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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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

Joseph Addison

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

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Betty White

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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 most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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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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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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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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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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One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Eastman, Max

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

Rochlin, Harriet

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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Thurber, James