Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Byron, Lord

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

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

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

Thurber, James

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Cousins, Norman

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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

Larry Gelbart

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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 closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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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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To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

Balzac, Honore De

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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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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

Eastman, Max

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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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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 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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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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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If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

Luther, Martin

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bodett, Tom

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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