Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Holden, Robert

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Joseph Addison

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has heard me laugh.

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

Luther, Martin

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?

Betty White

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

The Talmud

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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 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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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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

Paul, Jean

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

Larry Gelbart

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

James, William

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

Boswell, James

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The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

Bill Nye

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

Connery, Sean

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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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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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 higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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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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A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Holden, Robert

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.