Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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

Luther, Martin

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, French

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Boswell, James

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Thurber, James

10.

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

Twain, Mark

11.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

12.

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

13.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

15.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

16.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

17.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

18.

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

Joseph Addison

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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

20.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

21.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

22.

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

Jay Leno

23.

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

Holden, Robert

24.

We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?

Betty White

25.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

26.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

27.

It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

West, Mae

28.

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

James, William

29.

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

Holden, Robert

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

31.

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

Mizner, Wilson

32.

Laughter -- An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

Bierce, Ambrose

33.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

34.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

35.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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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

37.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

Kundera, Milan

42.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

47.

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

Jimmy Buffett

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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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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