Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Seneca

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Holden, Robert

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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

11.

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

12.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

13.

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

Proverb, French

14.

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 malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

16.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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If you can laugh at it then you can live with it

19.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Byron, Lord

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

Bill Nye

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

James, William

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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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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

31.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Twain, Mark

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

Eastman, Max

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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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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Kundera, Milan

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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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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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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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 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.