Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Chaplin, Charlie

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Holden, Robert

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

Kundera, Milan

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Cousins, Norman

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The human race has but one really affective weapon, and that is laughter.

Twain, Mark

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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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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

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

Larry Gelbart

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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

West, Mae

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.

Jay Leno

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

Paul, Jean

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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

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

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

Proverb, French

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

33.

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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I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.

Peter Ustinov

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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

Holden, Robert

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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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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

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

James, William

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

Rochlin, Harriet

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

Byron, Lord

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Thurber, James

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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