Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

- Caddy, Eileen

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

West, Mae

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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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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

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What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

14.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Thurber, James

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

Bill Nye

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

Mizner, Wilson

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The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Byron, Lord

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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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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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.