Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Every new time will give its law.

- Gorky, Maxim

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has heard me laugh.

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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

Luther, Martin

I am persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more so when he laughs, it adds something to this fragment of life.

Sterne, Laurence

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

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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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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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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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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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

Eastman, Max

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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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

Paul, Jean

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

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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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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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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 -- 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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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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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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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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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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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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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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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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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.