Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Laughter translates into any language.

- Graffiti

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

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

Byron, Lord

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Cousins, Norman

10.

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

Johnson, Samuel

11.

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

Holden, Robert

12.

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

Betty White

13.

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

Boswell, James

14.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

15.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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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 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

19.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

20.

A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

21.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

22.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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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

27.

I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.

Burns, Robert

28.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

29.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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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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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

36.

The earth laughs in flowers.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

37.

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

The Talmud

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

Joseph Addison

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

Addison, Joseph

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