Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Tagore, Rabindranath

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

James, William

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

Stephen King

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Addison, Joseph

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Bill Nye

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

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

Joseph Addison

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

Jimmy Buffett

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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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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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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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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

Eastman, Max

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

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Twain, Mark

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To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

Balzac, Honore De

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer.

Rochlin, Harriet

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

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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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 is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Larry Gelbart

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

42.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Proverb, French

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

Holden, Robert

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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