Motivational Quotes

Laughter

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

- e e cummings

Best Quotes about Laughter

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.

Jay Leno

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

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

Betty White

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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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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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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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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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 malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Byron, Lord

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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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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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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Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Jimmy Buffett

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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

James, William

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Bill Nye

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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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 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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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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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