Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Byron, Lord

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

Johnson, Samuel

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

Joseph Addison

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

Jimmy Buffett

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

11.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

The Talmud

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

25.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

Cousins, Norman

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

28.

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 does not seem to be a sin, but it leads to sin.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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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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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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

Boswell, James

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

Holden, Robert

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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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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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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

48.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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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.