Motivational Quotes

Laughter

I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.

- Mizner, Wilson

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Boswell, James

There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.

Dietrich, Marlene

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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 is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

James, William

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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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

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If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

Addison, Joseph

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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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One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Addison, Joseph

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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

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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.

Mizner, Wilson

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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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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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

The Talmud

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Joseph Addison

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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