Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Laughter is higher than all pain.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Laughter

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Bodett, Tom

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Bill Nye

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

James, William

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

Jay Leno

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

Twain, Mark

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

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

13.

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

Jimmy Buffett

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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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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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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If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

Luther, Martin

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

Holden, Robert

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

Eastman, Max

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

Larry Gelbart

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

Rochlin, Harriet

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Seneca

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

Byron, Lord

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Proverb, French

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

The Talmud

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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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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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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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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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings