Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Every new time will give its law.

- Gorky, Maxim

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Johnson, Samuel

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

Mencken, H. L.

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

James, William

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

Jay Leno

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Byron, Lord

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Jimmy Buffett

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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 is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

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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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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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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Twain, Mark

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

Bill Nye

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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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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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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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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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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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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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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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

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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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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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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