Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

- Victor Borge

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Proverb, French

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Bob Newhart

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?

Betty White

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

Thurber, James

11.

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

Johnson, Samuel

12.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

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

Bodett, Tom

14.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

15.

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

Larry Gelbart

16.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Jimmy Buffett

20.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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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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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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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

25.

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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

27.

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

28.

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

Twain, Mark

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

30.

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

31.

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

Byron, Lord

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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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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.

South, Bishop Robert

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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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 sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

Kundera, Milan