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

If you can laugh at it then you can live with it

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

Holden, Robert

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

Twain, Mark

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

Holden, Robert

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Jimmy Buffett

One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

Mencken, H. L.

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

10.

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

Seneca

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Burns, Robert

14.

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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Laughing is not always the proof of a mind at ease.

Proverb, French

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

Betty White

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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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

22.

Laughter -- An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

Bierce, Ambrose

23.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

25.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Cousins, Norman

28.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

29.

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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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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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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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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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

38.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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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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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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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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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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

Jay Leno

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

Eastman, Max