Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer.

- Rochlin, Harriet

Best Quotes about Laughter

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

Proverb, French

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Twain, Mark

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

Boswell, James

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Bill Nye

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Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.

Mandino, Og

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

Betty White

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

Holden, Robert

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Luther, Martin

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Byron, Lord

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

Thurber, James

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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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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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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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Cousins, Norman

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People who laugh actually live longer than those who don't laugh. Few persons realize that health actually varies according to the amount of laughter.

Walsh, Dr. James A

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer.