Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Hitchcock, Raymond

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Jay Leno

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Cousins, Norman

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

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

Kundera, Milan

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 most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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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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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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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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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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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 difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Bodett, Tom

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.

Gogol, Nikolai Vasilyevich

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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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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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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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Seneca

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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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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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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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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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