Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Luther, Martin

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

Holden, Robert

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

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

Betty White

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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 day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

10.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

11.

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

Paul, Jean

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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

13.

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

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The human race has but one really affective weapon, and that is laughter.

Twain, Mark

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

Bill Nye

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

19.

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 inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

James, 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 tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

Chaplin, Charlie

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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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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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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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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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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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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

35.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.

The Talmud

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

Joseph Addison

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.