Motivational Quotes

Laughter

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -- hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

Thurber, James

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagious: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop.

Holden, Robert

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

The Talmud

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Lincoln, Abraham

10.

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

11.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

12.

I always knew I would look back at the times I'd cried and laugh, but I never knew that I'd look back at the times I'd laughed and cry.

Prowdzik, Shaun

13.

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

14.

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

Addison, Joseph

15.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

16.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

17.

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

Seneca

18.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

19.

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

James, William

20.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

21.

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

Balzac, Honore De

22.

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

Kundera, Milan

23.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

24.

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

Byron, Lord

25.

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

26.

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

27.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

28.

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

Mizner, Wilson

29.

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

Jimmy Buffett

30.

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

Luther, Martin

31.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

32.

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

Mencken, H. L.

33.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Cousins, Norman

36.

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

Larry Gelbart

37.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

39.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

West, Mae

46.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

47.

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