Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Chrysosatom, St. John

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

2.

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

Joseph Addison

3.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

4.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

5.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

6.

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

Edgar Watson Howe

7.

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

Boswell, James

8.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

9.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

10.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

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

12.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

13.

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

14.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

15.

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

16.

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

James, William

17.

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

18.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

20.

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

21.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

22.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

23.

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

Bob Newhart

24.

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

25.

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

Twain, Mark

26.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

27.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

28.

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

Addison, Joseph

29.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

31.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

32.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Holden, Robert

36.

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

37.

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

Jay Leno

38.

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

Jimmy Buffett

39.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

40.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

41.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

42.

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

43.

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

Johnson, Samuel

44.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

45.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

46.

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