Motivational Quotes

Laughter

The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

West, Mae

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

Proverb, French

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Kundera, Milan

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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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 laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -- hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

Thurber, James

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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 translates into any language.

Graffiti

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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 is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

Cousins, Norman

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

James, William

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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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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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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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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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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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

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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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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

Larry Gelbart

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

The Talmud

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

Paul, Jean

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Holden, Robert

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Luther, Martin