Motivational Quotes

Laughter

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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Best Quotes about Laughter

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Stephen King

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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

Larry Gelbart

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

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Kundera, Milan

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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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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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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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 flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Jimmy Buffett

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Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent relieves we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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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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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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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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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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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

Eastman, Max

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

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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 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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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

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Twain, Mark

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

Thurber, James

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

Balzac, Honore De

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Rochlin, Harriet

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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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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People who laugh actually live longer than those who don't laugh. Few persons realize that health actually varies according to the amount of laughter.

Walsh, Dr. James A

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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