Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

- Barth, Karl

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

2.

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

Byron, Lord

3.

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

Betty White

4.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

5.

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

Kundera, Milan

6.

Laughter is the best way to make somebody's heart beat.

Holden, Robert

7.

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

8.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

9.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

10.

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

Seneca

11.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

12.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

13.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

14.

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

15.

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

Holden, Robert

16.

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

Luther, Martin

17.

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

Bodett, Tom

18.

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

19.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

20.

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

Proverb, French

21.

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

Twain, Mark

22.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

23.

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

24.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

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

26.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

27.

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

Joseph Addison

28.

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

Mencken, H. L.

29.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

30.

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

31.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

32.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

33.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

34.

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

35.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

36.

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

37.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

38.

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

39.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

40.

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Bob Newhart

41.

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

42.

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

Stephen King

43.

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

Paul, Jean

44.

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

Mizner, Wilson

45.

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

Edgar Watson Howe

46.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

47.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

48.

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

49.

We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the yak, the belly laugh, and the dozen other labels for the roll- em-in-the-aisles gagerissimo. This is the kind of laugh that delights actors, directors, and producers, but dismays writers of comedy because it is the laugh that often dies in the lobby. The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

Thurber, James

50.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield