Motivational Quotes

Laughter

I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has heard me laugh.

- Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Mizner, Wilson

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Boswell, James

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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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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.

Peter Ustinov

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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 is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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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 translates into any language.

Graffiti

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

Twain, Mark

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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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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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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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 is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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 first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

Cousins, Norman

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

Joseph Addison

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

Bob Newhart

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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.