Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Beaumarchais, Pierre De

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Bodett, Tom

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

Twain, Mark

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Johnson, Samuel

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Paul, Jean

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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

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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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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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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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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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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Lincoln, Abraham

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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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 higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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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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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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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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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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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Eastman, Max

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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