Motivational Quotes

Laughter

The more laws, the more offenders.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.

Rice, Anne

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Addison, Joseph

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

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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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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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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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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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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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

15.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Eastman, Max

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

Holden, 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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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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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

24.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

26.

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

Betty White

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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

28.

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

Jay Leno

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

31.

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

32.

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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A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.

Hitchcock, Raymond

34.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

35.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

39.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

40.

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

Seneca

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

Thurber, James

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

Joseph Addison

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

Paul, Jean

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

Cousins, Norman

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