Motivational Quotes

Laughter

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

- Agnes Repplier

Best Quotes about Laughter

I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has heard me laugh.

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

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

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

Boswell, James

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

Joseph Addison

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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

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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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We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?

Betty White

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

James, William

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

Twain, Mark

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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

Proverb, French

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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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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Jay Leno

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

Twain, Mark

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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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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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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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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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 translates into any language.

Graffiti

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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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 malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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