Motivational Quotes

Laughter

The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Chaplin, Charlie

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Byron, Lord

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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

Bill Nye

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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

Thurber, James

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

Proverb, French

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

James, William

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

Joseph Addison

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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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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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

Boswell, James

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 the best way to make somebody's heart beat.

Holden, Robert

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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.