Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

- Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Seneca

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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

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

Jay Leno

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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 ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

West, Mae

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

Thurber, James

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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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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Eastman, Max

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Joseph Addison

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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 tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

Chaplin, Charlie

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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 thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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

Twain, Mark

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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

Kundera, Milan

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

24.

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

Cousins, Norman

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

Luther, Martin

27.

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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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Larry Gelbart

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

33.

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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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

Bill Nye

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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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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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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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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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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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.