Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Paul, Jean

Laughter -- An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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

Mizner, Wilson

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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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You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.

Jay Leno

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

Proverb, French

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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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 cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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

Twain, Mark

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

James, William

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

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

Kundera, Milan

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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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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl