Motivational Quotes

Laughter

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Kundera, Milan

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Boswell, James

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

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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If you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may say with confidence that he is a good man.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Holden, Robert

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

Twain, Mark

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

Proverb, French

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

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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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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Paul, Jean

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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 translates into any language.

Graffiti

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

Byron, Lord

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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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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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Thurber, James

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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 by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Larry Gelbart

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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, 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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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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 shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

James, William

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

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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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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