Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

- Victor Borge

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

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

Twain, Mark

If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

Howe, Edgar Watson

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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

The Talmud

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

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

Eastman, Max

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

Joseph Addison

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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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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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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Paul, Jean

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Holden, Robert

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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

Byron, Lord

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

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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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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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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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

James, William

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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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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

Larry Gelbart

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.

Dietrich, Marlene

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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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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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.