Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Larry Gelbart

Best Quotes about Laughter

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Larry Gelbart

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

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

Thurber, James

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

Byron, Lord

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb, French

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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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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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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

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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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Paul, Jean

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Joseph Addison

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

Connery, Sean

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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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 more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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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 best way to make somebody's heart beat.

Holden, Robert

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

Eastman, Max

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

Twain, Mark

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

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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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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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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 a highly addictive positive contagious: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop.

Holden, Robert

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.