Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Addison, Joseph

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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

Johnson, Samuel

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Boswell, James

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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

11.

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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

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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

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If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

Jimmy Buffett

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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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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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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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Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

Twain, Mark

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

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

Proverb, French

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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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

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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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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

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

Luther, Martin

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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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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

37.

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

Byron, Lord

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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Seneca

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

Holden, Robert

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Balzac, Honore De

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There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.

Dietrich, Marlene

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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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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

The Talmud

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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.