Motivational Quotes

Laughter

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

- e e cummings

Best Quotes about Laughter

You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.

Jay Leno

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

Thurber, James

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

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

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

Larry Gelbart

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

The Talmud

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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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 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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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Twain, Mark

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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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 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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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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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

James, William

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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?