Motivational Quotes

Laughter

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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Best Quotes about Laughter

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Bodett, Tom

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Holden, Robert

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

Betty White

10.

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

Twain, Mark

11.

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

Kundera, Milan

12.

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

Balzac, Honore De

14.

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

15.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Holden, Robert

18.

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

Eastman, Max

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

20.

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

Jimmy Buffett

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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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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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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

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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

27.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

28.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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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

30.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

32.

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 -- 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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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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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

The Talmud

40.

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Larry Gelbart

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

Boswell, James

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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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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.