Motivational Quotes

Laughter

The more laws, the more offenders.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Proverb, French

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

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.

The Talmud

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

Balzac, Honore 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 I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

Luther, Martin

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

Larry Gelbart

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

Joseph Addison

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Boswell, 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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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

Paul, Jean

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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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I always knew I would look back at the times I'd cried and laugh, but I never knew that I'd look back at the times I'd laughed and cry.

Prowdzik, Shaun

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

Connery, Sean

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Betty White

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Dietrich, Marlene