Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Larry Gelbart

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Eastman, Max

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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

Paul, Jean

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

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

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

James, William

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

The Talmud

12.

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

Johnson, Samuel

13.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Holden, Robert

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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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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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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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

Mizner, Wilson

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

Byron, Lord

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Jimmy Buffett

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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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

39.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Jay Leno

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Laughter translates into any language.