Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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

Betty White

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

Twain, Mark

Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.

South, Bishop Robert

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Eastman, Max

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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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 best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -- hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

Thurber, James

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Luther, Martin

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

Joseph Addison

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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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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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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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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

Proverb, French

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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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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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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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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

Byron, Lord

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Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Beecher, Henry Ward