Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

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

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

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

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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

Boswell, James

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

Kundera, Milan

11.

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

Twain, Mark

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

13.

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

Thurber, James

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb, French

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

West, Mae

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

Eastman, Max

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

Jay Leno

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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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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

29.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

Byron, Lord

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Paul, Jean

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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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 is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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