Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

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

Jay Leno

2.

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

Larry Gelbart

3.

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

Edgar Watson Howe

4.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

5.

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

6.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

7.

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

The Talmud

8.

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

9.

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

James, William

10.

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

Paul, Jean

11.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

12.

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

Bill Nye

13.

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

Twain, Mark

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.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

16.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

17.

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

18.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

19.

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

Mizner, Wilson

20.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

21.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

22.

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

Byron, Lord

23.

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

Eastman, Max

24.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

25.

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

26.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

27.

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

Stephen King

28.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

29.

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

30.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

31.

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

Luther, Martin

32.

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

33.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

34.

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

Boswell, James

35.

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

Betty White

36.

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

37.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

38.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

39.

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

West, Mae

40.

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

Holden, Robert

41.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

42.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

43.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

Laughing is not always the proof of a mind at ease.

Proverb, French

46.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

47.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

48.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.