Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Laughter

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

Laughter -- An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

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

Byron, Lord

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Betty White

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Kundera, Milan

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

James, William

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

The Talmud

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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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If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

Addison, Joseph

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

Joseph Addison

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Proverb, French

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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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 you can laugh at it then you can live with it

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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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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

Balzac, Honore De

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

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