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

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

Larry Gelbart

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Bob Newhart

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

10.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

11.

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

The Talmud

12.

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

Addison, Joseph

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

15.

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

Kundera, Milan

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

20.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Joseph Addison

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

James, William

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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 higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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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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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

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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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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.