Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Boswell, James

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

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

Twain, Mark

2.

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

3.

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

4.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

5.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

6.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

7.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

8.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

9.

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

Mizner, Wilson

10.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

13.

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

14.

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

Kundera, Milan

15.

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

The Talmud

16.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

17.

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

Bill Nye

18.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

19.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

20.

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

Bob Newhart

21.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

22.

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

Paul, Jean

23.

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

Balzac, Honore De

24.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

25.

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

Joseph Addison

26.

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -- hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

Thurber, James

27.

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

Jimmy Buffett

28.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

29.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

30.

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

31.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

32.

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

Mencken, H. L.

33.

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

Larry Gelbart

34.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

35.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

36.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

37.

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

Proverb, French

38.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

39.

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

40.

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

41.

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

Bodett, Tom

42.

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

Holden, Robert

43.

She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

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

Boswell, James

45.

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

46.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might of been.

Hazlitt, William

47.

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

48.

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

Byron, Lord

49.

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

Johnson, Samuel

50.

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