Motivational Quotes

Laughter

They laugh well who laugh last.

- Saying

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Twain, Mark

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

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Paul, Jean

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Twain, Mark

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

Byron, Lord

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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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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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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

James, William

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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Holden, Robert

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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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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Eastman, Max

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