Motivational Quotes

Laughter

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

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

Eastman, Max

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

James, William

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You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Stephen King

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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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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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

Proverb, French

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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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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're old.

Edgar Watson Howe

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

25.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Larry Gelbart

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

Joseph Addison

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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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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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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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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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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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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Seneca

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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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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.

Rice, Anne

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

Paul, Jean

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

Twain, Mark

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A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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

Twain, Mark