Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bill Nye

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

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

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

West, Mae

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Bierce, Ambrose

10.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

11.

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

12.

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

Paul, Jean

13.

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

Betty White

14.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

15.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

16.

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

17.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

18.

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

Holden, Robert

19.

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

Jay Leno

20.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

21.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

22.

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

23.

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

Eastman, Max

24.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

25.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

26.

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

27.

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

28.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

29.

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

Thurber, James

30.

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

31.

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

Addison, Joseph

32.

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

33.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

35.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

36.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

37.

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

Larry Gelbart

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Balzac, Honore De

41.

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

Stephen King

42.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

43.

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

Byron, Lord

44.

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

45.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

46.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

47.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

48.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

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

Edgar Watson Howe

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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