Motivational Quotes

Laughter

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

Maugham, W. Somerset

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Byron, Lord

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

Jay Leno

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

Joseph Addison

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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 is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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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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One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.