Motivational Quotes

Laughter

He who laughs, lasts!

- Mary Pettibone Poole

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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

Proverb, French

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Joseph Addison

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Eastman, Max

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Bill Nye

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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 most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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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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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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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

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagious: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop.

Holden, Robert

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

James, William

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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

Kundera, Milan

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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

Cousins, Norman

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