Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

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

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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

Betty White

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

Balzac, Honore De

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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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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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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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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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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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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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Holden, Robert

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Proverb, French

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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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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

Larry Gelbart

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

Jimmy Buffett

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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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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

The Talmud

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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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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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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 is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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