Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Laughter

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

Luther, Martin

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

Boswell, James

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

Laughter -- An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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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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The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

Bill Nye

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

Thurber, James

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Eastman, Max

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Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.

The Talmud

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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

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

James, William

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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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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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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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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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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Bob Newhart

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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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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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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Joseph Addison

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Byron, Lord

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette