Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Larry Gelbart

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

Bill Nye

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

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

Dietrich, Marlene

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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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

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Luther, Martin

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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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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Seneca

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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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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

Cousins, Norman

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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

James, William

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

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Thurber, James

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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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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.