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

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

The Talmud

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Twain, Mark

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

Cousins, Norman

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

James, William

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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 most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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

Eastman, Max

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

19.

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

Proverb, French

20.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Jay Leno

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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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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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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Bill Nye

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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

32.

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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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Edgar Watson Howe

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Larry Gelbart

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There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter -- loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

Osler, Sir William

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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 is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

49.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

50.

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