Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Bodett, Tom

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Chaplin, Charlie

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer.

Rochlin, Harriet

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

Byron, Lord

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Holden, Robert

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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Laughter is the best way to make somebody's heart beat.

Holden, Robert

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

Bill Nye

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

Twain, Mark

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

James, William

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Proverb, French

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Eastman, Max

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

39.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

40.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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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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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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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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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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If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

Jimmy Buffett

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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