Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Chrysosatom, St. John

Best Quotes about Laughter

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

Paul, Jean

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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

James, William

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

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Twain, Mark

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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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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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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

Eastman, Max

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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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Laughter -- An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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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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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Thurber, James

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Holden, Robert

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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 more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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

34.

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

35.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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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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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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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Holden, Robert

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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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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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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself.

Barrymore, Ethel