Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

- Proverb, Japanese

Best Quotes about Laughter

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Proverb, French

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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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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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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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 human race has but one really affective weapon, and that is laughter.

Twain, Mark

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Boswell, James

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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

Betty White

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Joseph Addison

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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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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Seneca

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

James, William

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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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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.