Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

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

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

If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.

Edgar Watson Howe

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Bob Newhart

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Eastman, Max

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

10.

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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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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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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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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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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

James, William

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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 is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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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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I am persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more so when he laughs, it adds something to this fragment of life.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Proverb, French

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Bill Nye

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

Paul, Jean

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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 best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

Larry Gelbart

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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

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

The Talmud

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

Twain, Mark

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

Holden, Robert

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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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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You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.