Motivational Quotes

Laughter

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Rochlin, Harriet

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

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Beecher, Henry Ward

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Bodett, Tom

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

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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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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I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.

Mizner, Wilson

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A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

Balzac, Honore De

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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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

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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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 the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Holden, Robert

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

Jimmy Buffett

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

Eastman, Max

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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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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You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.

Jay Leno

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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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Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagious: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop.

Holden, Robert

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

Proverb, French

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

Bill Nye

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Kundera, Milan

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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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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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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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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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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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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They laugh well who laugh last.