Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Betty White

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has heard me laugh.

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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

Cousins, Norman

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Stephen King

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Addison, Joseph

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

Joseph Addison

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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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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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Jimmy Buffett

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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

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

Holden, Robert

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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Eastman, Max

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Larry Gelbart

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

33.

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

James, William

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Byron, Lord

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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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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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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

Paul, Jean

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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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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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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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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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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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

Betty White