Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

2.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

3.

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

4.

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

5.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

6.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

7.

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

Boswell, James

8.

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

Tagore, Rabindranath

9.

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

Thurber, James

10.

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

11.

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

Bob Newhart

12.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

13.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

14.

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

Jay Leno

15.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

16.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

17.

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

18.

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

Byron, Lord

19.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

20.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

24.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

25.

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

Balzac, Honore De

26.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

27.

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

Holden, Robert

28.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Mencken, H. L.

33.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

34.

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

35.

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

36.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

37.

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

Betty White

38.

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

39.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

40.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

41.

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

West, Mae

42.

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