Motivational Quotes

Laughter

The human race has but one really affective weapon, and that is laughter.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

The Talmud

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

Holden, Robert

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

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Joseph Addison

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

Bodett, Tom

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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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 the best way to make somebody's heart beat.

Holden, Robert

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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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 -- 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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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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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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The human race has but one really affective weapon, and that is laughter.

Twain, Mark

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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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 shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

Jimmy Buffett

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.

Jay Leno

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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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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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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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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 most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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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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They laugh well who laugh last.