Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Cousins, Norman

Best Quotes about Laughter

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

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

Larry Gelbart

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

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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

The Talmud

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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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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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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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Joseph Addison

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

James, William

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Paul, Jean

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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 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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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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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 tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

Chaplin, Charlie

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

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Thurber, James

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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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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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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing