Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Laughter

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Betty White

No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.

Paul, Jean

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

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

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

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

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Jay Leno

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

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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 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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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Larry Gelbart

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

Eastman, Max

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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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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 more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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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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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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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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I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has heard me laugh.

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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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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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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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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

Luther, Martin

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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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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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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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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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