Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Laughter

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

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

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

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

West, Mae

Laughter -- An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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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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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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

Larry Gelbart

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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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There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Boswell, James

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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 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 am persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more so when he laughs, it adds something to this fragment of life.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Proverb, French

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Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Bob Newhart

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

James, William

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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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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Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer.

Rochlin, Harriet

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

Holden, Robert

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Byron, Lord

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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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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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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 laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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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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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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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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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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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