Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Chaplin, Charlie

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Dietrich, Marlene

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Balzac, Honore De

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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

Twain, Mark

11.

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Betty White

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Jimmy Buffett

16.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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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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You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Holden, Robert

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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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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

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

Proverb, French

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

Rochlin, Harriet

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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

Larry Gelbart

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

Byron, Lord

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

Paul, Jean

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

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

James, William

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

33.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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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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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.