Motivational Quotes

Laughter

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

- Agnes Repplier

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

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

Cousins, Norman

2.

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

3.

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

Paul, Jean

4.

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

5.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

6.

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

7.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

8.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Boswell, James

12.

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

Twain, Mark

13.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

14.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

16.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

17.

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

18.

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

Edgar Watson Howe

19.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

20.

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

Betty White

21.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

22.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

23.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

24.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

25.

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

Luther, Martin

26.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

27.

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

Connery, Sean

28.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

29.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

30.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

31.

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

32.

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

West, Mae

33.

I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has heard me laugh.

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

34.

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

Larry Gelbart

35.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

36.

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

Bodett, Tom

37.

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

Mizner, Wilson

38.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

39.

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

40.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

41.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

42.

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

The Talmud

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

46.

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

Stephen King

47.

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

48.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

49.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

50.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins