Motivational Quotes

Laughter

You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself.

- Barrymore, Ethel

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

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

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

Seneca

Laughter -- An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Dietrich, Marlene

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.

Peter Ustinov

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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

Eastman, Max

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

Chazal, Malcolm 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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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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

Larry Gelbart

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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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

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

Paul, Jean

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

Byron, Lord

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

The Talmud

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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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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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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Cousins, Norman

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

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One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

Mencken, H. L.