Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Every new time will give its law.

- Gorky, Maxim

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

West, Mae

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Boswell, James

I am persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more so when he laughs, it adds something to this fragment of life.

Sterne, Laurence

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Bodett, Tom

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Proverb, French

11.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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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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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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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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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Laughter does not seem to be a sin, but it leads to sin.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

The Talmud

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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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 can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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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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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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

Bill Nye

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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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There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.

Dietrich, Marlene

47.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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

Larry Gelbart

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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