Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

- Koran, The

Best Quotes about Laughter

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has heard me laugh.

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Dietrich, Marlene

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Seneca

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

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

Bill Nye

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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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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The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -- hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

Thurber, James

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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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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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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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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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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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Kundera, Milan

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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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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Proverb, French

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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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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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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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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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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.

Paul, Jean

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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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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

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter -- loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

Osler, Sir William

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Joseph Addison

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One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

Mencken, H. L.