Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

- Koran, The

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

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

Dietrich, Marlene

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Larry Gelbart

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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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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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 inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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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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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Stephen King

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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 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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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

James, William

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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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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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

Seneca

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

Luther, Martin

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I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Edgar Watson Howe

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

Holden, Robert

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

Jimmy Buffett

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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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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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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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