Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

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Best Quotes about Laughter

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Franklin, Benjamin

There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.

Dietrich, Marlene

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

Twain, Mark

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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

Paul, Jean

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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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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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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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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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

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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 is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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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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Laughter is the best way to make somebody's heart beat.

Holden, Robert

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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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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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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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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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The earth laughs in flowers.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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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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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.