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

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

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

Bill Nye

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

Bob Newhart

Laughter -- An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

The Talmud

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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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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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 inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

Joseph Addison

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

James, William

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

Kundera, Milan

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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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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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Byron, Lord

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Cousins, Norman

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

Eastman, Max

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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Holden, Robert

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl