Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- The Talmud

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Paul, Jean

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

Howe, Edgar Watson

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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

Holden, Robert

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Addison, Joseph

10.

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

11.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

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

Balzac, Honore De

13.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

14.

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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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

16.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

17.

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

Mizner, Wilson

18.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

19.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

20.

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

James, William

21.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

22.

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

23.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

24.

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

25.

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

Proverb, French

26.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

27.

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

Chazal, Malcolm De

28.

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

Luther, Martin

29.

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

30.

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

West, Mae

31.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

32.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

33.

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

34.

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

Bill Nye

36.

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Boswell, James

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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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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

39.

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

Eastman, Max

40.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

41.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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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 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

44.

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

45.

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

Thurber, James

46.

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

Kundera, Milan

47.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

48.

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

49.

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

Johnson, Samuel

50.

They laugh well who laugh last.

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