Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

- Barth, Karl

Best Quotes about Laughter

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Chaplin, Charlie

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Stephen King

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Bill Nye

10.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

11.

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

12.

A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.

Hitchcock, Raymond

13.

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

Joseph Addison

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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

17.

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

18.

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

Paul, Jean

19.

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

20.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

21.

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

Cousins, Norman

22.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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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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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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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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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

27.

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

28.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Holden, Robert

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

Mizner, Wilson

31.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

32.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

33.

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

Byron, Lord

34.

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

Kundera, Milan

35.

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

Betty White

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

Proverb, French

38.

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

Jay Leno

39.

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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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

42.

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 the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.