Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Eastman, Max

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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 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

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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

Paul, Jean

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

Proverb, French

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

Joseph Addison

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

Holden, Robert

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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

Larry Gelbart

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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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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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 by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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

Jimmy Buffett

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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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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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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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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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

James, William

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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.