Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Balzac, Honore De

Best Quotes about Laughter

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Franklin, Benjamin

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Holden, Robert

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Joseph Addison

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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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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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Seneca

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

Luther, Martin

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

Byron, Lord

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You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself.

Barrymore, Ethel

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You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.

Jay Leno

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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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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The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.

Rice, Anne

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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 flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Bill Nye

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

Tagore, Rabindranath