Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Laughter is higher than all pain.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Laughter

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

West, Mae

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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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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

Kundera, Milan

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

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

Bill Nye

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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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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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

Byron, Lord

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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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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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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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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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

Joseph Addison

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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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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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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 most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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

Proverb, French

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

Jay Leno