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

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

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 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

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Mandino, Og

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

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

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Rochlin, Harriet

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

Paul, Jean

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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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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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

Larry Gelbart

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

The Talmud

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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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

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings