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

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

West, Mae

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Holden, Robert

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

Bodett, Tom

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

The Talmud

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

Thurber, James

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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

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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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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 -- 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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Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

Cousins, Norman

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

Proverb, French

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Mizner, Wilson

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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The more laws, the more offenders.