Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Betty White

There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.

Dietrich, Marlene

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

Bill Nye

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

10.

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

Mencken, H. L.

11.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

14.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Bob Newhart

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

17.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

20.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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 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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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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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

Larry Gelbart

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Twain, Mark

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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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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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

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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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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

40.

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

James, William

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Byron, Lord

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