Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Hitchcock, Raymond

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Stephen King

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Eastman, Max

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

Boswell, James

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

Franklin, Benjamin

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Mizner, Wilson

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The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

The Talmud

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

Kundera, Milan

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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Holden, Robert

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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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.

Peter Ustinov

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

Larry Gelbart

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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

32.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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Laughing is not always the proof of a mind at ease.

Proverb, French

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

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

Twain, Mark

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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 the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

44.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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.