Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

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

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Edgar Watson Howe

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

Byron, Lord

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

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

Rochlin, Harriet

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

10.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

11.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

12.

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

13.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Bodett, Tom

14.

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

15.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

16.

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

Johnson, Samuel

17.

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

Cousins, Norman

18.

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

Joseph Addison

19.

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

Larry Gelbart

20.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

21.

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

22.

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Kundera, Milan

27.

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

Holden, Robert

28.

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

Holden, Robert

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

30.

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

33.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

34.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

36.

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

Paul, Jean

37.

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 most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

39.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

40.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

41.

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

42.

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

43.

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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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

45.

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

46.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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

48.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

49.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

50.

Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.

Mandino, Og