Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Laughter

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Bob Newhart

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Twain, Mark

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

West, Mae

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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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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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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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

The Talmud

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

Cousins, Norman

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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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 most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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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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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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I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.

Burns, 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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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

Byron, Lord

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

Balzac, Honore De

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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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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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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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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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

Holden, Robert

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