Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

- Caddy, Eileen

Best Quotes about Laughter

I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has heard me laugh.

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Kundera, Milan

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

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

Eastman, Max

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

Larry Gelbart

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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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 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.

James, William

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

Proverb, French

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

Bill Nye

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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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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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

Paul, Jean

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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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 human race has but one really affective weapon, and that is laughter.

Twain, Mark

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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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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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 more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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

Holden, Robert

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Boswell, James

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

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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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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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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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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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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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

The Talmud

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins