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

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

West, Mae

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

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

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

Larry Gelbart

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

Byron, Lord

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Edgar Watson Howe

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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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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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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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

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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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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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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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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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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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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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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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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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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

Holden, Robert

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She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Jimmy Buffett

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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 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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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 the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.