Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Hitchcock, Raymond

Best Quotes about Laughter

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

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

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

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

Dietrich, Marlene

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Seneca

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

Larry Gelbart

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 you can laugh at it then you can live with it

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Byron, Lord

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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

The Talmud

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

Joseph Addison

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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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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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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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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Eastman, Max

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Boswell, James

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

Thurber, James

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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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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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Holden, Robert

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Mizner, Wilson