Motivational Quotes

Laughter

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

2.

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

3.

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

Bodett, Tom

4.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

5.

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

Jimmy Buffett

6.

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

Proverb, French

7.

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

Betty White

8.

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

Stephen King

9.

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

Balzac, Honore De

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Twain, Mark

13.

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

Holden, Robert

14.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

15.

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

Mizner, Wilson

16.

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

The Talmud

17.

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

Luther, Martin

18.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

19.

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

Edgar Watson Howe

20.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

21.

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

Byron, Lord

22.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

23.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

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

Larry Gelbart

25.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

26.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

27.

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

28.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

30.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

31.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

32.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

33.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

34.

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

West, Mae

35.

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

Johnson, Samuel

36.

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

37.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

38.

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

Boswell, James

39.

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

James, William

40.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

41.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

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

43.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

44.

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

45.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

46.

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

47.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

48.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

49.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

50.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl