Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

- Graffiti

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Rochlin, Harriet

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Barrymore, Ethel

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Seneca

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

Carlyle, Thomas

You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.

Jay Leno

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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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

Proverb, French

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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

James, William

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

38.

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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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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The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -- hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

Thurber, James

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

Eastman, Max

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.