Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Chazal, Malcolm De

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

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

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

Proverb, French

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

Mencken, H. L.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

Barrymore, Ethel

10.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

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

Luther, Martin

12.

You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.

Jay Leno

13.

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

Thurber, James

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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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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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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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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

18.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

James, William

22.

She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

27.

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

Cousins, Norman

28.

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

Boswell, James

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

Holden, Robert

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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Seneca

31.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

32.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

33.

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

Paul, Jean

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

35.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Twain, Mark

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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

39.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

40.

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

Kundera, Milan

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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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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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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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