Motivational Quotes

Laughter

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

- Thackeray, William M.

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Seneca

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Byron, Lord

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

West, Mae

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

Luther, Martin

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Beecher, Henry Ward

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb, French

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

James, William

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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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

Bill Nye

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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

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

Eastman, Max

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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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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Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Bob Newhart

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

Paul, Jean

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

Balzac, Honore De

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The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Chaplin, Charlie

41.

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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The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Larry Gelbart

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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 laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -- hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.