Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Hitchcock, Raymond

Best Quotes about Laughter

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has heard me laugh.

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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

Paul, Jean

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

Thurber, James

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

Joseph Addison

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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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 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 is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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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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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Jay Leno

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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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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.