Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Larry Gelbart

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

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 always knew I would look back at the times I'd cried and laugh, but I never knew that I'd look back at the times I'd laughed and cry.

Prowdzik, Shaun

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

Balzac, Honore De

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Paul, Jean

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Eastman, Max

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Larry Gelbart

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

Howe, Edgar Watson

28.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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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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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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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

Thurber, James

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Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent relieves we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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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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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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The earth laughs in flowers.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

44.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Bill Nye

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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