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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Bodett, Tom

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

Bill Nye

It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

West, Mae

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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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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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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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

13.

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

Twain, Mark

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

15.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Jimmy Buffett

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

Eastman, Max

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Joseph Addison

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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