Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Proverb, French

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

Mandino, Og

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

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Joseph Addison

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Boswell, James

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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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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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

Byron, Lord

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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

The Talmud

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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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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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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

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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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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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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

Eastman, Max

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre 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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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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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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