Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Betty White

Best Quotes about Laughter

It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

West, Mae

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

Laughter does not seem to be a sin, but it leads to sin.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

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

Paul, Jean

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

Johnson, Samuel

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

Balzac, Honore De

11.

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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

Twain, Mark

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

Mizner, Wilson

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A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

Luther, Martin

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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

Holden, Robert

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

Bill Nye

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Boswell, James

31.

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

Seneca

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Addison, Joseph

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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

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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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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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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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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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