Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

James, William

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

Tagore, Rabindranath

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

Eastman, Max

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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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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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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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 tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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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 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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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Cousins, Norman

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I always knew I would look back at the times I'd cried and laugh, but I never knew that I'd look back at the times I'd laughed and cry.

Prowdzik, Shaun

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

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Luther, Martin

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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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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 enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Bodett, Tom

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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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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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 higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert