Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Addison, Joseph

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Thurber, James

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

Paul, Jean

10.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

12.

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

Eastman, Max

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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 enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Holden, Robert

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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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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

19.

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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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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There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Boswell, James

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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

28.

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

Luther, Martin

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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We don't laugh because we're happy -- we're happy because we laugh.

James, William

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

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The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

Kundera, Milan

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

Jay Leno

36.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Balzac, Honore 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.