Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

Eastman, Max

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

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

Bob Newhart

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Thurber, James

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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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

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Bodett, Tom

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

Joseph Addison

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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 -- 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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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Byron, Lord

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

Betty White

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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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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 cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, 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 is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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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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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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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Paul, Jean

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

Twain, Mark

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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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