Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Larry Gelbart

I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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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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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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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

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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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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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

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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 closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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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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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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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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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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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 is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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

Seneca

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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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.