Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

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Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Betty White

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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

Larry Gelbart

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Twain, Mark

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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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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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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

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

Twain, Mark

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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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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

32.

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

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

35.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

39.

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

Kundera, Milan

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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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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

Joseph Addison

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Luther, Martin

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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

Mizner, Wilson