Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Dietrich, Marlene

Best Quotes about Laughter

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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

Seneca

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Holden, Robert

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

10.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

11.

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

12.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

13.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

14.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

15.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

The Talmud

17.

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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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

20.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Luther, Martin

25.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Kundera, Milan

28.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

29.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

31.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

33.

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

Larry Gelbart

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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

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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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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

38.

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

James, William

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

Bill Nye

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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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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

Jimmy Buffett

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

48.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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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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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