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

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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

Betty White

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Twain, Mark

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

Connery, Sean

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

10.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

11.

If you can laugh at it then you can live with it

12.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

13.

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

Byron, Lord

14.

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

Johnson, Samuel

15.

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

16.

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

The Talmud

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

Proverb, French

22.

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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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

24.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

Bill Nye

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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

30.

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

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

Eastman, Max

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

Jay Leno

34.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

35.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

36.

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Cousins, Norman

39.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Holden, Robert

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

44.

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

Seneca

45.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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

Joseph Addison

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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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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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm