Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Laughter is higher than all pain.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Byron, Lord

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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

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

Paul, Jean

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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

The Talmud

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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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

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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

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

Joseph Addison

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

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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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

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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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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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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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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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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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 flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Proverb, French

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The earth laughs in flowers.