Motivational Quotes

Laughter

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

- Thackeray, William M.

Best Quotes about Laughter

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

The Talmud

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?

Betty White

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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

Rochlin, Harriet

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

Proverb, French

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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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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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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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

14.

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

James, 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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Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Bob Newhart

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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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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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 higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Paul, Jean

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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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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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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

Joseph Addison

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