Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Laughter is by definition healthy.

- Doris Lessing

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Balzac, Honore De

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Holden, Robert

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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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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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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

Twain, Mark

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

Holden, Robert

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Joseph Addison

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If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.

Edgar Watson Howe

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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

39.

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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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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