Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Luther, Martin

One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Bodett, Tom

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

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

10.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

11.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

12.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

13.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

15.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Twain, Mark

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

27.

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

Cousins, Norman

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The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

Kundera, Milan

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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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If you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may say with confidence that he is a good man.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Proverb, French

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

40.

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

Jay Leno

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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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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

Eastman, Max

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Chazal, Malcolm De