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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

Holden, Robert

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Edgar Watson Howe

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

Proverb, French

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Twain, Mark

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Luther, Martin

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bill Nye

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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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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 higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Paul, Jean

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

Rochlin, Harriet

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

The Talmud

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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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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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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Laughter -- An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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.