Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.

Burns, Robert

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

Kundera, Milan

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

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

Larry Gelbart

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

Twain, Mark

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

Byron, Lord

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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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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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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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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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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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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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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 best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Joseph Addison

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Holden, Robert

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

Seneca

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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 quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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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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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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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

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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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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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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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