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

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer.

Rochlin, Harriet

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

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

Larry Gelbart

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

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Bob Newhart

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

The Talmud

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

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

Johnson, Samuel

11.

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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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Jay Leno

18.

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

Seneca

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

20.

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

Twain, Mark

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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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

23.

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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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Paul, Jean

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

33.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

Stephen King

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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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

Byron, Lord

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

Eastman, Max

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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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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Lincoln, Abraham

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

44.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

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I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim