Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Laughter

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Luther, Martin

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Stephen King

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

Holden, Robert

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

Boswell, James

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

10.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

11.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

Larry Gelbart

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

Betty White

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Twain, Mark

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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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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A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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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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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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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.

The Talmud

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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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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

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Joseph Addison

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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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

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