Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Laughter

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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

Holden, Robert

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Chaplin, Charlie

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Stephen King

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Byron, Lord

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

Luther, Martin

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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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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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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

29.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

31.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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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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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Proverb, French

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The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Joseph Addison

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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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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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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The earth laughs in flowers.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)