Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- James, William

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Bill Nye

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

Joseph Addison

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

Twain, Mark

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Betty White

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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

Thurber, James

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

Proverb, French

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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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 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 can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Cousins, Norman

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

The Talmud

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

James, William

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

Paul, Jean

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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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

Luther, Martin

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Seneca

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There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.

Dietrich, Marlene

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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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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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Carlyle, Thomas