Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

- Barth, Karl

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Thurber, James

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

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

Proverb, French

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

Paul, Jean

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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 can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Joseph Addison

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Larry Gelbart

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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 -- 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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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

Twain, Mark

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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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 can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer.

Rochlin, Harriet

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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

Stephen King

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

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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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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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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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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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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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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

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Jimmy Buffett

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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