Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Chaplin, Charlie

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Joseph Addison

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.

Dietrich, Marlene

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

Bodett, Tom

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Lincoln, Abraham

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Stephen King

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

Byron, Lord

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Proverb, French

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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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I always knew I would look back at the times I'd cried and laugh, but I never knew that I'd look back at the times I'd laughed and cry.

Prowdzik, Shaun

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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 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

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Betty White

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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

Paul, Jean

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

The Talmud

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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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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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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 shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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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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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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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 can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 can laugh at it then you can live with it

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

Holden, Robert

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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 flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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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