Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Laughter translates into any language.

- Graffiti

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

2.

Laughter -- An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

Bierce, Ambrose

3.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

4.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

5.

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

6.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

7.

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

8.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

9.

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

Byron, Lord

10.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

11.

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

Twain, Mark

12.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

13.

There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter -- loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

Osler, Sir William

14.

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

15.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

16.

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

Jimmy Buffett

17.

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

Kundera, Milan

18.

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

19.

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

Jay Leno

20.

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

Betty White

21.

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

22.

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

Seneca

23.

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

Chazal, Malcolm De

24.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

25.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

26.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

28.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

29.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

30.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

31.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

32.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

33.

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

34.

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

Balzac, Honore De

35.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

36.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

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

38.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

39.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

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

41.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

42.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

43.

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

Edgar Watson Howe

44.

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

45.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

46.

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

Eastman, Max

47.

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

48.

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

Mencken, H. L.