Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Bill Nye

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Betty White

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

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.

Dietrich, Marlene

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -- hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

Thurber, James

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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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 grow old.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

Twain, Mark

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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

Jay Leno

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

Kundera, Milan

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

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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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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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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A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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

Byron, Lord

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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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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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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 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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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Boswell, James

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

Holden, Robert

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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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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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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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

Holden, Robert

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