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

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

Johnson, Samuel

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

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Dietrich, Marlene

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Bill Nye

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

10.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

11.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

12.

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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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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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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The human race has but one really affective weapon, and that is laughter.

Twain, Mark

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

17.

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

Paul, Jean

18.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Boswell, James

20.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

21.

A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

22.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Holden, Robert

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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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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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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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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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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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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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

The Talmud

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

Proverb, French

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

44.

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

Luther, Martin

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Laughter is inner jogging.