Motivational Quotes

Laughter

The more laws, the more offenders.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

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

Holden, Robert

2.

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

3.

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

Luther, Martin

4.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

5.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

6.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

7.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

8.

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

James, William

9.

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

Bob Newhart

10.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

11.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

12.

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

13.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

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

Paul, Jean

15.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

16.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

17.

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

Bodett, Tom

18.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

19.

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

20.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

21.

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

Kundera, Milan

22.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

23.

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

Joseph Addison

24.

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

25.

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

Larry Gelbart

26.

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

27.

If you can laugh at it then you can live with it

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

32.

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

33.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.