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

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

James, William

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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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Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.

South, Bishop Robert

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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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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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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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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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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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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

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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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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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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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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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

Holden, Robert

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

Eastman, Max

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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

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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

Luther, Martin

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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