Motivational Quotes

Laughter

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

Bill Nye

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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

Byron, Lord

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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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 distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Twain, Mark

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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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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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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

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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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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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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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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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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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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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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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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 should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Addison, Joseph

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

Eastman, Max

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

Joseph Addison

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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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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

Kundera, Milan

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.