Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Bodett, Tom

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

James, William

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.

Baudrillard, Jean

Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.

The Talmud

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

Seneca

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Larry Gelbart

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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

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I always knew I would look back at the times I'd cried and laugh, but I never knew that I'd look back at the times I'd laughed and cry.

Prowdzik, Shaun

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Holden, Robert

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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 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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Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bill Nye

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagious: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop.

Holden, Robert

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

Eastman, Max

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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