Laughter Quotes

• Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Motivational, Positive

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• The person who has a sense of humor is not just more relaxed in the face of a potentially stressful situation, but is more flexible in his approach.

  John Morreall

  Happiness, Stressful Situations, Laughing

  John Morreall (1983). “Taking Laughter Seriously”, p.108, SUNY Press

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• Laughter is the language of the soul.

  Pablo Neruda

  Happiness, Laughing, Soul

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• A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Happiness, Humor, Dark

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (2008). “Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks”, University of Missouri

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• There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

  Charles Dickens

  Happiness, Inspiring, Work

  Charles Dickens (2011). “A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories”, p.59, Penguin

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• Peace begins with a smile.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Friendship, Mother

  Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers”, p.13, New World Library

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• Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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  If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

  Andy Rooney

  Love, Happiness, Smile

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• Seven days without laughter makes one weak.

  Mort Walker

  Inspirational, Funny, Happiness

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  Laughter is an instant vacation.

  Milton Berle

  Love, Family, Happiness

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• The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Bullying, Business

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.35, St. Martin's Press

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• If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Laughing, Soul

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• Laughter is the language of the heart

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Heart, Language

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1986). “Thirty Years Around the World: 1957-1964”, Stichting Drukkerij En Uitgeverij Mvu

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• If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you cry. And vice versa.

  Sid Caesar

  Happiness, Laughing, Joy

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• Determine to live life with flair and laughter.

  Maya Angelou

  Live Life, Flair, Determine

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Even the Stars Look Lonesome”, p.9, Bantam

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• The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

  Socrates

  Happiness, Lying, Philosophical

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• If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

  Woody Allen

  Life, Hipster, Thinking

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• Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

  Victor Borge

  Inspirational, Cute, Relationship

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• A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures him of a mother's love.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Happiness, Smile, Mom

  "Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances: Or, What He Said, Did, Or Invented". Volume II,

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• To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. Besides whatever dreadful things this prolonged exposure to screens is doing to their brains, computer games tend to be solitary affairs, and produce little laughter.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Depressing, Sight, Hands

  "The joy of traditional games" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2010.

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• I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there's more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending.

  Tom Hooper

  Uplifting, Kings, New York

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• The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things. [from her Newberry Award acceptance speech]

  Lois Lowry

  Pain, Memories, Children

  Lois Lowry, Bagram Ibatoulline (2011). “The Giver”, p.196, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Isn’t it only through laughter that we become one with the gods and thus can endure life and can overcome all the horror and waste and suffering here on earth? …Isn’t it only through laughter we can stay human?

  James Clavell

  Suffering, Overcoming, Earth

  James Clavell (2009). “Shogun”, p.379, Dell

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• She laughed like she'd just invented laughter.​

  Mira Grant

  Laughed

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• Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Teacher, Appreciation, Humor

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