Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Laughter

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Seneca

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

10.

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

The Talmud

11.

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

Holden, Robert

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

Eastman, Max

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

Twain, Mark

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

James, William

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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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

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Proverb, French

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

Rochlin, Harriet

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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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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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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

Jimmy Buffett

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings