Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Balzac, Honore De

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

Chazal, Malcolm De

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Stephen King

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Seneca

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

Twain, Mark

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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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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It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

West, Mae

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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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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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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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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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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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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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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

Luther, Martin

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

The Talmud

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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

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

Jay Leno

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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