Motivational Quotes

Laughter

He who laughs, lasts!

- Mary Pettibone Poole

Best Quotes about Laughter

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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

2.

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

Kundera, Milan

3.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

4.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

5.

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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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

7.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Joseph Addison

9.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

10.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

11.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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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

13.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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It is easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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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 most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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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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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Bodett, Tom

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

28.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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

31.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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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

33.

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 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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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Holden, Robert

42.

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

43.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

James, William

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

Jay Leno

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

48.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

49.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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