Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

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Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Twain, Mark

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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

The Talmud

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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

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

Bob Newhart

The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

10.

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

11.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

12.

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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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 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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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 cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Joseph Addison

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

22.

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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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

25.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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

Paul, Jean

27.

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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Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.

Mandino, Og

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

33.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Jimmy Buffett

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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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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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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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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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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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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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

Proverb, French