Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Stephen King

Best Quotes about Laughter

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Larry Gelbart

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

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

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

Eastman, Max

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

Byron, Lord

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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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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If you can laugh at it then you can live with it

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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

Proverb, French

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Joseph Addison

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

Cousins, Norman

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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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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

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

41.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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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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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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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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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

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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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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

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.