Motivational Quotes

Laughter

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

- Thackeray, William M.

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Bodett, Tom

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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

Byron, Lord

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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Kundera, Milan

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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, 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 higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

James, William

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

Holden, Robert

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

Eastman, Max

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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

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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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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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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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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Larry Gelbart

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

Seneca

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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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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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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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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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They laugh well who laugh last.

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