Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Beaumarchais, Pierre De

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

2.

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

Twain, Mark

3.

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

4.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

5.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

6.

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

7.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

8.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

9.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

10.

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

The Talmud

11.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

14.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

15.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

16.

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

James, William

17.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

18.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

19.

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

20.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

21.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

22.

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

23.

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

24.

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

Joseph Addison

25.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

26.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

27.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

28.

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

29.

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

Luther, Martin

30.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

31.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

32.

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

Bill Nye

33.

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

Edgar Watson Howe

34.

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

Boswell, James

35.

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

36.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

37.

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

38.

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

39.

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

40.

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

Eastman, Max

41.

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

Larry Gelbart

42.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

43.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

44.

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

45.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

46.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

47.

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

Proverb, French

48.

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