Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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

Holden, Robert

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

Bill Nye

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

Laughing is not always the proof of a mind at ease.

Proverb, French

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

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

12.

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

Mizner, Wilson

13.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

14.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

15.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

16.

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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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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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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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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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 difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Bodett, Tom

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

23.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

24.

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

Eastman, Max

25.

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

Paul, Jean

26.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

Luther, Martin

30.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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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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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

34.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

James, William

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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

40.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

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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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

43.

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

Larry Gelbart

44.

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

Connery, Sean

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.