Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

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

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

West, Mae

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

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Stephen King

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Johnson, Samuel

10.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Bodett, Tom

13.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

14.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

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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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

17.

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

Jimmy Buffett

18.

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

Jay Leno

19.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

20.

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

Holden, Robert

21.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

22.

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -- hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

Thurber, James

23.

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

Seneca

24.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

25.

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

Holden, Robert

26.

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

Byron, Lord

27.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

28.

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

The Talmud

29.

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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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

31.

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

32.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

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

Proverb, French

34.

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

Cousins, Norman

35.

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Bob Newhart

36.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

38.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

39.

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

Joseph Addison

40.

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

Kundera, Milan

41.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

42.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

43.

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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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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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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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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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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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

49.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Luther, Martin