Motivational Quotes

Laughter

She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter -- loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

Osler, Sir William

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

The Talmud

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

Holden, Robert

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

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

Seneca

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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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

11.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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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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Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

Cousins, Norman

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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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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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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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

Eastman, Max

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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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

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I am persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more so when he laughs, it adds something to this fragment of life.

Sterne, Laurence

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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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The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

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

Boswell, James

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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 gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Bob Newhart

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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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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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

Mizner, Wilson

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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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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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