Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Betty White

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Boswell, James

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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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 more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Kundera, Milan

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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 higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Thurber, James

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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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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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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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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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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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You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself.

Barrymore, Ethel

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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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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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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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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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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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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

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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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Jimmy Buffett

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Larry Gelbart

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier