Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

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

Holden, Robert

2.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

3.

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

Kundera, Milan

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

7.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

8.

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

Bodett, Tom

9.

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

Bill Nye

10.

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

11.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

12.

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

13.

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

14.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

15.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

16.

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

Byron, Lord

17.

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

Holden, Robert

18.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

19.

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

20.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

21.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

22.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

23.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

24.

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

Edgar Watson Howe

25.

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

Betty White

26.

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

Cousins, Norman

27.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

28.

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

Twain, Mark

29.

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

Bob Newhart

30.

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

31.

There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams and stamps its feet, and sets the bells jangling in the next town. Laughter in all its ignorance and cruelty. Laughter with the seed of Satan in it. It tramples upon shrines; the belly-roarer. It roars, it yells, it is delirious: and yet it is as cold as ice. It has no humor. It is naked noise and naked malice.

Peake, Mervyn

32.

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

Joseph Addison

33.

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

Proverb, French

34.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

35.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

36.

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

37.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

38.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

39.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

40.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

41.

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

Johnson, Samuel

42.

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

Twain, Mark

43.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

44.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

45.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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 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

48.

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

Thurber, James

49.

You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.

Jay Leno

50.

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

Addison, Joseph