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

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

Eastman, Max

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

Betty White

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

Twain, Mark

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

Proverb, French

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 -- 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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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

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

The Talmud

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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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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Byron, Lord

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Larry Gelbart

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

Paul, Jean

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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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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