Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

- Colette

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Edgar Watson Howe

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

Proverb, French

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

Twain, Mark

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

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

Larry Gelbart

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

Luther, Martin

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

10.

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

West, Mae

11.

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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Joseph Addison

19.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

20.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

21.

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

Betty White

22.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

23.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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

Boswell, James

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

27.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

29.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

30.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

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

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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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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Holden, Robert

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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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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

40.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

42.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

43.

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

Holden, Robert

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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