Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Beaumarchais, Pierre De

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

The Talmud

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

Rochlin, Harriet

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

James, William

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

Paul, Jean

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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

Thurber, James

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

Byron, Lord

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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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 difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Bodett, Tom

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Stephen King

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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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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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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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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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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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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Jimmy Buffett

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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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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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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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