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

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

Holden, Robert

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Paul, Jean

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Lincoln, Abraham

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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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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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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Byron, Lord

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We don't laugh because we're happy -- we're happy because we laugh.

James, William

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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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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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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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 is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

Cousins, Norman

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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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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Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer.

Rochlin, Harriet

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Holden, Robert

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.