Motivational Quotes

Laughter

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

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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

2.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

3.

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

Betty White

4.

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

Balzac, Honore De

5.

Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.

Chesterfield, Lord

6.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

7.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

8.

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

9.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

10.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

11.

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

Addison, Joseph

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

15.

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

The Talmud

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

19.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

20.

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

Eastman, Max

21.

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

22.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

23.

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

24.

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

Mencken, H. L.

25.

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

Stephen King

26.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

27.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

28.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

29.

I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

30.

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

Twain, Mark

31.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

32.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

33.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

34.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

35.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

36.

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

37.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent relieves we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.

Chazal, Malcolm De

39.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

40.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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Laughter is higher than all pain.