Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Edgar Watson Howe

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Boswell, James

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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

Luther, Martin

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Eastman, Max

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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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 laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -- hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

Thurber, James

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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

Twain, Mark

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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might of been.

Hazlitt, William

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

Betty White

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

Bill Nye

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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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 inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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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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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Joseph Addison

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

Jay Leno

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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People who laugh actually live longer than those who don't laugh. Few persons realize that health actually varies according to the amount of laughter.

Walsh, Dr. James A

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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti