Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

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

Balzac, Honore De

2.

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

Proverb, French

3.

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

Thurber, James

4.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

5.

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

6.

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

Paul, Jean

7.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

8.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

9.

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

10.

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

Bill Nye

11.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

12.

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

Eastman, Max

13.

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

14.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

15.

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

The Talmud

16.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

17.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

18.

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

19.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

21.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

22.

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

Jay Leno

23.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

24.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

25.

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

Boswell, James

26.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

27.

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

Bob Newhart

28.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

29.

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

Twain, Mark

30.

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

Byron, Lord

31.

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

32.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

33.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

34.

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

35.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

36.

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

James, William

37.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

38.

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

39.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

40.

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

41.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

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

Kundera, Milan