Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Laughter is inner jogging.

- Norman Cousins

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

The Talmud

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Byron, Lord

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

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

Jay Leno

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

Paul, Jean

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Holden, Robert

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

Luther, Martin

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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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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Bodett, Tom

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Jimmy Buffett

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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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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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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 laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca