Motivational Quotes

Laughter

There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.

- Dietrich, Marlene

Best Quotes about Laughter

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Bodett, Tom

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

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Bill Nye

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

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

10.

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

Jay Leno

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Balzac, Honore De

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Larry Gelbart

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Joseph Addison

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

Holden, Robert

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Twain, Mark

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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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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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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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

Luther, Martin

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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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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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

The Talmud

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Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

Twain, Mark

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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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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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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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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Holden, Robert

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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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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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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 the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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