Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about Laughter

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Thurber, James

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Paul, Jean

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

Luther, Martin

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

Balzac, Honore De

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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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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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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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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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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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 the best way to make somebody's heart beat.

Holden, Robert

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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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 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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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 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 translates into any language.

Graffiti

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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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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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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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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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

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.

Peter Ustinov

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

Bodett, Tom

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

Twain, Mark

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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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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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

Howe, Edgar Watson