Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Laughter

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

Laughter -- An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

Bierce, Ambrose

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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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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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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Paul, Jean

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Laughter is the best way to make somebody's heart beat.

Holden, Robert

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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

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

The Talmud

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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

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

Boswell, James

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

27.

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

James, William

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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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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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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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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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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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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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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 malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Joseph Addison

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

Twain, Mark

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent relieves we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Byron, Lord

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man