Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

- Koran, The

Best Quotes about 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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

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

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

Kundera, Milan

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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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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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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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

The Talmud

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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

Bodett, Tom

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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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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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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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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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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Laughter is the best way to make somebody's heart beat.

Holden, Robert

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Thurber, James

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

Bill Nye

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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 closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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

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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