Motivational Quotes

Laughter

The more laws, the more offenders.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Eastman, Max

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

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We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the yak, the belly laugh, and the dozen other labels for the roll- em-in-the-aisles gagerissimo. This is the kind of laugh that delights actors, directors, and producers, but dismays writers of comedy because it is the laugh that often dies in the lobby. The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

Thurber, James

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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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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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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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Twain, Mark

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If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

Jimmy Buffett

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Larry Gelbart

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

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

Seneca

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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 more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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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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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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Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer.

Rochlin, Harriet

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.