Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Betty White

Best Quotes about Laughter

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.

Jay Leno

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

Connery, Sean

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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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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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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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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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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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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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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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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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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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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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagious: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop.

Holden, Robert

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

Larry Gelbart

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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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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

Kundera, Milan

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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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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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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

Joseph Addison

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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 distance between two people.