Motivational Quotes

Laughter

He who laughs, lasts!

- Mary Pettibone Poole

Best Quotes about Laughter

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Luther, Martin

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Jay Leno

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Joseph Addison

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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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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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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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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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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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 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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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

Rochlin, Harriet

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

Bill Nye

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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

Paul, Jean

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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 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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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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

Thurber, James

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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

Kundera, Milan

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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

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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 flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Eastman, Max