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

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

Betty White

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

Connery, Sean

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

Bob Newhart

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Jimmy Buffett

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.