Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Joseph Addison

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

Betty White

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Laughter -- An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Larry Gelbart

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

Luther, Martin

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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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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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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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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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Edgar Watson Howe

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Holden, Robert

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

23.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Paul, Jean

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Bill Nye

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

Proverb, French

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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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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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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 inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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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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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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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Cousins, Norman

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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.