Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Laughter

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

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

Paul, Jean

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Eastman, Max

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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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

11.

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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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

Holden, Robert

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

Joseph Addison

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

The Talmud

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

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

Betty White

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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

Balzac, Honore 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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There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Boswell, James

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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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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 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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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

Jimmy Buffett

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

James, William

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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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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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

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

Rochlin, Harriet

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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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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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Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Bob Newhart