Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about Laughter

You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself.

Barrymore, Ethel

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Holden, Robert

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

The Talmud

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

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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I am persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more so when he laughs, it adds something to this fragment of life.

Sterne, Laurence

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

12.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

13.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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 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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Boswell, James

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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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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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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 is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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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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If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

Luther, Martin

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Holden, Robert

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

Paul, Jean

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

James, William

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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

37.

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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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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If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.

Edgar Watson Howe

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

Cousins, Norman

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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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 only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Rochlin, Harriet

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

Kundera, Milan