Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the yak, the belly laugh, and the dozen other labels for the roll- em-in-the-aisles gagerissimo. This is the kind of laugh that delights actors, directors, and producers, but dismays writers of comedy because it is the laugh that often dies in the lobby. The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

Thurber, James

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

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

James, William

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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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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You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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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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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Bob Newhart

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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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

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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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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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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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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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

Joseph Addison

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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

Larry Gelbart

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Rochlin, Harriet

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

Twain, Mark

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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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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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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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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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I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has heard me laugh.