Motivational Quotes

Laughter

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

- Boswell, James

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

The Talmud

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

James, William

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

Eastman, Max

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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I always knew I would look back at the times I'd cried and laugh, but I never knew that I'd look back at the times I'd laughed and cry.

Prowdzik, Shaun

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

Byron, Lord

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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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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You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.

Jay Leno

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Seneca

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

Holden, Robert

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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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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 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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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

Stephen King

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To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

Balzac, Honore De

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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 earth laughs in flowers.

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

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins