Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- The Talmud

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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

Boswell, James

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Seneca

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Larry Gelbart

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

Mencken, H. L.

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

West, Mae

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Byron, Lord

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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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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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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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Kundera, Milan

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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Cousins, Norman

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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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

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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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 the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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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