Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Joseph Addison

Best Quotes about Laughter

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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

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

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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

Byron, Lord

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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Laughter does not seem to be a sin, but it leads to sin.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Proverb, French

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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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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 cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Holden, Robert

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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

Seneca

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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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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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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might of been.

Hazlitt, William

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Twain, Mark

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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 is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

Twain, Mark

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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 malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Eastman, Max

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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He who laughs, lasts!