Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Hitchcock, Raymond

Best Quotes about Laughter

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagious: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop.

Holden, Robert

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

West, Mae

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

No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.

Paul, Jean

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

Balzac, Honore De

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Bob Newhart

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has heard me laugh.

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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

Thurber, James

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

Boswell, James

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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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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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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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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

Joseph Addison

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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Proverb, French

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

Jay Leno

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

Cousins, Norman

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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