Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Laughter

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Paul, Jean

Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Kundera, Milan

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bodett, Tom

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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

10.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

11.

If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

Jimmy Buffett

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The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -- hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

Thurber, James

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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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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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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

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

Proverb, French

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

25.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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 is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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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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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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

Jay Leno

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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

Holden, Robert

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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.