Motivational Quotes

Laughter

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

Thurber, James

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Holden, Robert

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

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

Cousins, Norman

Laughter does not seem to be a sin, but it leads to sin.

Chrysosatom, St. John

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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 can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer.

Rochlin, Harriet

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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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

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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

James, William

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

Balzac, Honore De

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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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

29.

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

Paul, Jean

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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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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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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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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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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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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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man