Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Holden, Robert

You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.

Jay Leno

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

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

The Talmud

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

Mencken, H. L.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Addison, Joseph

10.

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

11.

There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.

Dietrich, Marlene

12.

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

13.

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

14.

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

Balzac, Honore De

15.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

17.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

18.

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

Mizner, Wilson

19.

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

Edgar Watson Howe

20.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

21.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

22.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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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

24.

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

Boswell, James

25.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

26.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

27.

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

Seneca

28.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

29.

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

30.

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

Joseph Addison

31.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

32.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

33.

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

Tagore, Rabindranath

34.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

35.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Lincoln, Abraham

36.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

38.

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

39.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

40.

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

Kundera, Milan

41.

It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

West, Mae

42.

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

Proverb, French

44.

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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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

46.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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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

48.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Bill Nye