Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Seneca

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

James, William

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

Byron, Lord

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

Betty White

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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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

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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

Bill Nye

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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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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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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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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Holden, Robert

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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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 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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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The