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

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

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

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

Larry Gelbart

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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

Betty White

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

11.

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

Joseph Addison

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

The Talmud

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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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I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

28.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

29.

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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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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

Cousins, Norman

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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

34.

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

Luther, Martin

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Twain, Mark

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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