Motivational Quotes

Laughter

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

- Thackeray, William M.

Best Quotes about Laughter

Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

Twain, Mark

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

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 the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

Luther, Martin

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

They laugh well who laugh last.

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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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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Stephen King

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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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The earth laughs in flowers.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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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

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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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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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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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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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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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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 closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

Thurber, James

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

Larry Gelbart

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

Twain, Mark

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

Paul, Jean

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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