Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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

Jimmy Buffett

We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?

Betty White

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

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

Bodett, Tom

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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

Lincoln, Abraham

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

Luther, Martin

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Holden, Robert

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Paul, Jean

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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

Boswell, James

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

Cousins, Norman

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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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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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

39.

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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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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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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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 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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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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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

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.