Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

Johnson, Samuel

Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer.

Rochlin, Harriet

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Paul, Jean

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Boswell, James

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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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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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

Kundera, Milan

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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

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

Joseph Addison

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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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I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.

Mizner, Wilson

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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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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Byron, Lord

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

Holden, Robert

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

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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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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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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.