Motivational Quotes

Laughter

The more laws, the more offenders.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Laughter

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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

A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.

Hitchcock, Raymond

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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

Holden, Robert

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

Larry Gelbart

The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Thurber, James

10.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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

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

Holden, Robert

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

Paul, Jean

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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

Addison, Joseph

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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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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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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 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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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 shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Jay Leno

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Mizner, Wilson

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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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 the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Betty White

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De