Motivational Quotes

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

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

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Bob Newhart

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

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

Joseph Addison

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

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

James, William

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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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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

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

The Talmud

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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

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Holden, Robert

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

Seneca

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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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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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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

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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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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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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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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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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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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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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

41.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.

Mandino, Og

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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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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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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

Paul, Jean

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