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

The earth laughs in flowers.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

The Talmud

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

Byron, Lord

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

Paul, Jean

10.

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

11.

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

Connery, Sean

13.

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

14.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

15.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

16.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

17.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

18.

It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

West, Mae

19.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

20.

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

22.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

23.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

28.

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

30.

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

Betty White

31.

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

32.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

33.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

37.

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 malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

40.

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

Chaplin, Charlie

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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

44.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

46.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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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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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich