Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Seneca

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

The Talmud

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

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

West, Mae

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

11.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

12.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Stephen King

13.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

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

Twain, Mark

16.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

17.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

18.

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

Luther, Martin

19.

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

20.

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

21.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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 the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

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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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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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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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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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

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Mizner, Wilson

32.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

33.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Joseph Addison

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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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You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.