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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Edgar Watson Howe

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Lincoln, Abraham

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

The Talmud

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Boswell, James

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

Bob Newhart

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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 tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

Chaplin, Charlie

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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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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Jay Leno

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Betty White

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Joseph Addison

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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

41.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Seneca