Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

Holden, Robert

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Johnson, Samuel

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

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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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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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 is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

James, William

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Thurber, James

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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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

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Byron, Lord

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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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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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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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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 flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

The Talmud

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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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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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Proverb, French

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.