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

I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

People who laugh actually live longer than those who don't laugh. Few persons realize that health actually varies according to the amount of laughter.

Walsh, Dr. James A

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

Johnson, Samuel

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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

Twain, Mark

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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

11.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

12.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

13.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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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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It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

West, Mae

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

Rochlin, Harriet

19.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

25.

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

26.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Lincoln, Abraham

27.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

28.

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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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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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 -- 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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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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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

34.

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

Bill Nye

35.

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

Paul, Jean

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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 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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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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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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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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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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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

Twain, Mark

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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

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

The Talmud

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

48.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Kundera, Milan