Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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

There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.

Dietrich, Marlene

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Bob Newhart

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Proverb, French

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

11.

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

Larry Gelbart

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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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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Rochlin, Harriet

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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 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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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Twain, Mark

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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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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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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 most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has heard me laugh.

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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

Cousins, Norman

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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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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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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Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.

The Talmud

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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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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

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Laughter -- An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Seneca