Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Bob Newhart

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Larry Gelbart

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

Stephen King

Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagious: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop.

Holden, Robert

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Bierce, Ambrose

If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

10.

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

11.

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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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

The Talmud

15.

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

West, Mae

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

James, William

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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

19.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

23.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

Rochlin, Harriet

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Bob Newhart

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Joseph Addison

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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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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It is easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

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

Mizner, Wilson