Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

- Caddy, Eileen

Best Quotes about Laughter

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Cousins, Norman

People who laugh actually live longer than those who don't laugh. Few persons realize that health actually varies according to the amount of laughter.

Walsh, Dr. James A

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Twain, Mark

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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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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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 good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Boswell, James

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We don't laugh because we're happy -- we're happy because we laugh.

James, William

21.

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 shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Proverb, French

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

Paul, Jean

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

Holden, Robert

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

Jimmy Buffett

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