Motivational Quotes

Laughter

He who laughs, lasts!

- Mary Pettibone Poole

Best Quotes about Laughter

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Bodett, Tom

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

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

If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.

Edgar Watson Howe

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

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?

Betty White

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

James, William

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Eastman, Max

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

Boswell, James

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.

The Talmud

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

23.

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

Seneca

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

Paul, Jean

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

Luther, Martin

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Larry Gelbart

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I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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

Holden, Robert

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Twain, Mark

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Bierce, Ambrose