Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

James, William

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Betty White

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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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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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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

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Holden, Robert

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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 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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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

Larry Gelbart

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

Jay Leno

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

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Rochlin, Harriet

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

Eastman, Max

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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 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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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 malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Mizner, Wilson