Motivational Quotes

Laughter

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Boswell, James

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.

Edgar Watson Howe

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

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Proverb, French

11.

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

Larry Gelbart

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

Eastman, Max

15.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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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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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Betty White

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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

21.

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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Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

Twain, Mark

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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

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

Jay Leno

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Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Luther, Martin

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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

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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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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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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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

40.

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

43.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Byron, Lord

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

Joseph Addison

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.