Motivational Quotes

Laughter

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

- John Masefield

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

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

Seneca

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

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

11.

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

Kundera, Milan

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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Laughing is not always the proof of a mind at ease.

Proverb, French

15.

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

Jimmy Buffett

16.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

18.

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 by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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

21.

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

Joseph Addison

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Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagious: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop.

Holden, Robert

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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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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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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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

27.

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

Larry Gelbart

28.

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

29.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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 the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Paul, Jean

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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We don't laugh because we're happy -- we're happy because we laugh.

James, William

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Holden, Robert

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

47.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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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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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield