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

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

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

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

Carlyle, Thomas

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Joseph Addison

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer.

Rochlin, Harriet

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Eastman, Max

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

Thurber, James

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Jimmy Buffett

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She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bill Nye

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Byron, Lord

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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 by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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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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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

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

The Talmud

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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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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca