Motivational Quotes

Laughter

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

- Thackeray, William M.

Best Quotes about Laughter

There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.

Dietrich, Marlene

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.

The Talmud

Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer.

Rochlin, Harriet

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Boswell, James

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

It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

West, Mae

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Jimmy Buffett

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

Joseph Addison

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

Paul, Jean

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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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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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Twain, Mark

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

Proverb, French

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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 thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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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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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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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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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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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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The earth laughs in flowers.