Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Laughter

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Edgar Watson Howe

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

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Kundera, Milan

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

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Eastman, Max

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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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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Seneca

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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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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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

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Byron, Lord

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

Paul, Jean

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

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

Proverb, French

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

Mizner, Wilson

30.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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

34.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Jimmy Buffett

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

Connery, Sean

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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

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

44.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

Mencken, H. L.

49.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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They laugh well who laugh last.

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