Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Thurber, James

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

10.

I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has heard me laugh.

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

11.

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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The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Jay Leno

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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 quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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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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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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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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

Proverb, French

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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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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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

34.

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Eastman, Max

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Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

Connery, Sean

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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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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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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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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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It is easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Seneca

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

Betty White

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

50.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier