Motivational Quotes

Laughter

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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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

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Boswell, James

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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

Larry Gelbart

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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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 best way to make somebody's heart beat.

Holden, Robert

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Rochlin, Harriet

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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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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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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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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 can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

Byron, Lord

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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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You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Seneca

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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

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

James, William

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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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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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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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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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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Joseph Addison

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