Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

2.

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

3.

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

Larry Gelbart

4.

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

Betty White

5.

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

Stephen King

6.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

7.

One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

Mencken, H. L.

8.

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

Twain, Mark

9.

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

Bill Nye

10.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

11.

There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.

Dietrich, Marlene

12.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

14.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

15.

It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

West, Mae

16.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

17.

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

Balzac, Honore De

18.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

19.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

20.

If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.

Edgar Watson Howe

21.

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

Cousins, Norman

22.

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

23.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

24.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

25.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

26.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

27.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

28.

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

Eastman, Max

29.

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

30.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

31.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

33.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

34.

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

35.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

36.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Bodett, Tom

37.

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

38.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

39.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

40.

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

Kundera, Milan

41.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

42.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

43.

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

Addison, Joseph

44.

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

45.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

46.

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

The Talmud

47.

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

Twain, Mark

48.

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

49.

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

50.

The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.

Rice, Anne