Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Beaumarchais, Pierre De

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Dietrich, Marlene

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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

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

Cousins, Norman

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

West, Mae

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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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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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Joseph Addison

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

Twain, Mark

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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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If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

Jimmy Buffett

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

Larry Gelbart

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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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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.