Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- The Talmud

Best Quotes about Laughter

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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

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

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

Kundera, Milan

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

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

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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We don't laugh because we're happy -- we're happy because we laugh.

James, William

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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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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The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

Bill Nye

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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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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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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

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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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Betty White

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.