Motivational Quotes

Laughter

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

- e e cummings

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

James, William

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Holden, Robert

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

Paul, Jean

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

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Byron, Lord

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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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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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

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

Larry Gelbart

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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 don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

Howe, Edgar Watson

16.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

17.

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

Twain, Mark

18.

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

Luther, Martin

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

21.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Joseph Addison

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

27.

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

Holden, Robert

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You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.

Jay Leno

31.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Boswell, James

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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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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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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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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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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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 only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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