Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Chaplin, Charlie

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

2.

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

Twain, Mark

3.

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

Thurber, James

4.

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

5.

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

Twain, Mark

6.

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

7.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

8.

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

Joseph Addison

9.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

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

11.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

12.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

13.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

14.

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

Bodett, Tom

15.

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

Byron, Lord

16.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

17.

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

Holden, Robert

18.

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

Bill Nye

19.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

20.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

21.

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

22.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

23.

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

24.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

25.

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

Luther, Martin

26.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

27.

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

28.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

29.

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

Mizner, Wilson

30.

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

Betty White

31.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

32.

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

Seneca

33.

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

34.

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

Jimmy Buffett

35.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

36.

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

37.

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

Kundera, Milan

38.

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

Cousins, Norman

39.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

40.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

41.

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

Bob Newhart

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.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

44.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

45.

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

Johnson, Samuel

46.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

47.

We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the yak, the belly laugh, and the dozen other labels for the roll- em-in-the-aisles gagerissimo. This is the kind of laugh that delights actors, directors, and producers, but dismays writers of comedy because it is the laugh that often dies in the lobby. The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

Thurber, James

48.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

49.

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

The Talmud

50.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond