Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Luther, Martin

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 more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

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

Chaplin, Charlie

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Twain, Mark

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

Thurber, James

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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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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Rochlin, Harriet

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A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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

James, William

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

Luther, Martin

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

Seneca

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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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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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Paul, Jean

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Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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

Holden, Robert

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Byron, Lord

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm