Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

- Elsa Maxwell

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

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Paul, Jean

The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

Carlyle, Thomas

Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.

The Talmud

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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

Betty White

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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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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A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

18.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Holden, Robert

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

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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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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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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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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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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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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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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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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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Joseph Addison

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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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

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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 is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Byron, Lord

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.