Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Hitchcock, Raymond

Best Quotes about Laughter

Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer.

Rochlin, Harriet

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

Edgar Watson Howe

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

Holden, Robert

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

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

Joseph Addison

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Byron, Lord

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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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

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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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The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

Kundera, Milan

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

Paul, Jean

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Betty White

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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

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

Twain, Mark

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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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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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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