Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Jay Leno

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Thurber, James

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

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

Eastman, Max

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

Bodett, Tom

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Rochlin, Harriet

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

Larry Gelbart

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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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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

Jimmy Buffett

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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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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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Kundera, Milan

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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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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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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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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

Twain, Mark

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

Byron, Lord

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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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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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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

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