Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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

Luther, Martin

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

The Talmud

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

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

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

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

Byron, Lord

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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 couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

Jimmy Buffett

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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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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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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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -- hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

Thurber, James

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Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Larry Gelbart

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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 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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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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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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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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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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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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

Jay Leno

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The human race has but one really affective weapon, and that is laughter.

Twain, Mark

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

Betty White

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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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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

James, William

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Joseph Addison

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

Twain, Mark

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich