Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

- Elsa Maxwell

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Byron, Lord

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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

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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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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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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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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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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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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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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

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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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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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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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Larry Gelbart

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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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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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 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 shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

Proverb, French

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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 are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

41.

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Thurber, James

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

Joseph Addison

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Laughter does not seem to be a sin, but it leads to sin.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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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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They laugh well who laugh last.

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