Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

2.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

3.

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

4.

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

Boswell, James

5.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

6.

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

Paul, Jean

7.

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

Twain, Mark

8.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

9.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

10.

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

Stephen King

11.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

12.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

13.

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

Mencken, H. L.

14.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

15.

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

Johnson, Samuel

16.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

17.

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

18.

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

19.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

20.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

21.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

22.

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

The Talmud

23.

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

Mizner, Wilson

24.

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

25.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

26.

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

27.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

28.

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

Holden, Robert

29.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

30.

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

31.

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

Eastman, Max

32.

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

33.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

34.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

35.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

36.

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

37.

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

Joseph Addison

38.

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

39.

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

Edgar Watson Howe

40.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

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

42.

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

Jay Leno

43.

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

44.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

45.

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

46.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

47.

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

Thurber, James

48.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

49.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver