Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

Balzac, Honore De

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

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

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

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

Proverb, French

10.

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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There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams and stamps its feet, and sets the bells jangling in the next town. Laughter in all its ignorance and cruelty. Laughter with the seed of Satan in it. It tramples upon shrines; the belly-roarer. It roars, it yells, it is delirious: and yet it is as cold as ice. It has no humor. It is naked noise and naked malice.

Peake, Mervyn

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

Kundera, Milan

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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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

Twain, Mark

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

Eastman, Max

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I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Byron, Lord

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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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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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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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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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

James, William

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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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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Jay Leno

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

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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