Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Beaumarchais, Pierre De

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

Thurber, James

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

Eastman, Max

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.

Dietrich, Marlene

10.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

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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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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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'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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Larry Gelbart

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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Laughter is the best way to make somebody's heart beat.

Holden, Robert

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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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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

Paul, Jean

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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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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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.