Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Bill Nye

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.

Peter Ustinov

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

Franklin, Benjamin

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Twain, Mark

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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 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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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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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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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

Larry Gelbart

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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 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 easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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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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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

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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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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Joseph Addison

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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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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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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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 -- 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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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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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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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 can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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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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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Boswell, James