Motivational Quotes

Laughter

The more laws, the more offenders.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

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

Eastman, Max

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

Twain, Mark

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Addison, Joseph

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

Bill Nye

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

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

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

Holden, Robert

10.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

12.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

13.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Byron, Lord

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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

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

The Talmud

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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

19.

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

Twain, Mark

20.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

21.

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

22.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Thurber, James

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

35.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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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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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Larry Gelbart

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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Laughing is not always the proof of a mind at ease.

Proverb, French

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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing