Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Balzac, Honore De

Best Quotes about Laughter

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

Larry Gelbart

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

Jay Leno

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

Mencken, H. L.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

James, William

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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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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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Rochlin, Harriet

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

Bill Nye

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

Proverb, French

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Byron, Lord

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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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Laughter translates into any language.