Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

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

Balzac, Honore De

2.

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

3.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

4.

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

5.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

6.

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

Bodett, Tom

7.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

8.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

9.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

10.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

11.

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

Addison, Joseph

12.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

13.

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

James, William

14.

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

15.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

16.

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

Holden, Robert

17.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

18.

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

Jimmy Buffett

19.

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

20.

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

21.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

22.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

23.

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

Cousins, Norman

24.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

25.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

26.

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

27.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

28.

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

29.

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

Joseph Addison

30.

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

Holden, Robert

31.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

32.

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

Paul, Jean

33.

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

Stephen King

34.

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

35.

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

Boswell, James

36.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

37.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

38.

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

39.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

40.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

41.

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

42.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.