Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Barrymore, Ethel

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Bob Newhart

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

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

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Boswell, James

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

10.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

11.

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

Luther, Martin

12.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

13.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

14.

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

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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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

Twain, Mark

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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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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

20.

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

Seneca

21.

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

Betty White

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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

23.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Proverb, French

25.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Twain, Mark

28.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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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

30.

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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