Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Bill Nye

If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.

Edgar Watson Howe

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Beecher, Henry Ward

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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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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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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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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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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Laughter does not seem to be a sin, but it leads to sin.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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

Proverb, French

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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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 the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

Chaplin, Charlie

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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 earth laughs in flowers.

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

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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 more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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

Holden, Robert

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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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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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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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca