Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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

Paul, Jean

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

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagious: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop.

Holden, Robert

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

Stephen King

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

Jimmy Buffett

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 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 tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

Chaplin, Charlie

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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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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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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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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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 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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Bill Nye

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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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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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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