Motivational Quotes

Laughter

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

- John Masefield

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

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

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

Kundera, Milan

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

The Talmud

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

Twain, Mark

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

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

Eastman, Max

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

Joseph Addison

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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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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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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

James, William

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

Larry Gelbart

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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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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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

Luther, Martin

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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 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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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Bill Nye

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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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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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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.