Motivational Quotes

Laughter

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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

Franklin, Benjamin

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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

Barrymore, Ethel

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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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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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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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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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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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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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Holden, Robert

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Byron, Lord

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

Holden, Robert

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

Larry Gelbart

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

Twain, Mark

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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

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

Seneca

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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.