Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

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Best Quotes about Laughter

It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

West, Mae

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Addison, Joseph

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

Paul, Jean

Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagious: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop.

Holden, Robert

You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.

Jay Leno

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

James, William

10.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

12.

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

Cousins, Norman

14.

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

Balzac, Honore De

15.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

16.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

17.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

18.

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

Boswell, James

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Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Thurber, James

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

Jimmy Buffett

23.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

25.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Larry Gelbart

30.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

31.

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

Kundera, Milan

32.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

33.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

34.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

35.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

37.

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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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

39.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Bodett, Tom

42.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

48.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

49.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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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