Motivational Quotes

Laughter

There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.

- Gogol, Nikolai Vasilyevich

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

James, William

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Twain, Mark

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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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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Rochlin, Harriet

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Stephen King

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.

Gogol, Nikolai Vasilyevich

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Joseph Addison

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

Byron, Lord

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

Luther, Martin

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What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

Johnson, Samuel

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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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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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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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 can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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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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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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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings