Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Bob Newhart

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

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

2.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

3.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

4.

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

5.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

6.

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

7.

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

8.

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

Bodett, Tom

9.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

11.

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

Eastman, Max

12.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

13.

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

Seneca

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.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

16.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

17.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

18.

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

Betty White

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.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

21.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

23.

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

24.

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

Twain, Mark

25.

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

Balzac, Honore De

26.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

27.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

28.

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

Twain, Mark

29.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

30.

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

Holden, Robert

31.

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

Paul, Jean

32.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

33.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

34.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

35.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

36.

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

Proverb, French

37.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Addison, Joseph

38.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

39.

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

James, William

40.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

41.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

45.

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

46.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

47.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

48.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

49.

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

50.

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

Johnson, Samuel