Motivational Quotes

Laughter

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Holden, Robert

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Paul, Jean

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

Edgar Watson Howe

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Twain, Mark

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

10.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

11.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

12.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

13.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

14.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

15.

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

Twain, Mark

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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

17.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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Laughing is not always the proof of a mind at ease.

Proverb, French

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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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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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

Carlyle, Thomas

24.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

25.

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

26.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

27.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

28.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Seneca

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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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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

32.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

33.

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

Joseph Addison

34.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Boswell, James

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

Larry Gelbart

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

The Talmud

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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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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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