Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

- Elsa Maxwell

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Jay Leno

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Seneca

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

Byron, Lord

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

Proverb, French

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Stephen King

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Larry Gelbart

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No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.

Paul, Jean

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

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

Bodett, Tom

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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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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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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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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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Holden, Robert

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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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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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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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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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