Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Cousins, Norman

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

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

Larry Gelbart

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Holden, Robert

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

10.

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

11.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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If you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may say with confidence that he is a good man.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

19.

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

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

Luther, Martin

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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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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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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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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 the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

Chaplin, Charlie

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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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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

Cousins, Norman

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

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

36.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Joseph Addison

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, French

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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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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

43.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.