Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Bill Nye

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Stephen King

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

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

Byron, Lord

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

The Talmud

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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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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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Eastman, Max

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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

Balzac, Honore De

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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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

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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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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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Addison, Joseph

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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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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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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

Seneca

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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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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The human race has but one really affective weapon, and that is laughter.

Twain, Mark

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