Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Kundera, Milan

Best Quotes about Laughter

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.

Peter Ustinov

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

James, William

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagious: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop.

Holden, Robert

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Holden, Robert

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

Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.

Mandino, Og

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

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

Paul, Jean

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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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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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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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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

Joseph Addison

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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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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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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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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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Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

Chaplin, Charlie

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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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We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?

Betty White

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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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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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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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 is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Thurber, James

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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