Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

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

Kundera, Milan

If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

Jimmy Buffett

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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

Luther, Martin

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

10.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

11.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

12.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

16.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

17.

It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

West, Mae

18.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

Byron, Lord

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

The Talmud

22.

Laughter is the best way to make somebody's heart beat.

Holden, Robert

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

24.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

25.

One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

Mencken, H. L.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

29.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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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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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

34.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

35.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

37.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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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

39.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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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

45.

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

Cousins, Norman

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

48.

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

Twain, Mark