Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Holden, Robert

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

2.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

3.

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

Edgar Watson Howe

4.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

5.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

6.

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

7.

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

Larry Gelbart

8.

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

9.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

10.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

11.

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

Bodett, Tom

12.

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

Mizner, Wilson

13.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

14.

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

Luther, Martin

15.

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

Seneca

16.

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

17.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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.

The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

Carlyle, Thomas

20.

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

21.

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

Boswell, James

22.

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

Johnson, Samuel

23.

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

Paul, Jean

24.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

25.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

26.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

27.

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

Stephen King

28.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

29.

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

30.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

31.

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

Cousins, Norman

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.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

34.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

35.

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

Twain, Mark

36.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

37.

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

Proverb, French

38.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

39.

If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

Jimmy Buffett

40.

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

West, Mae

41.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

42.

I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has heard me laugh.

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

43.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

44.

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

Addison, Joseph

45.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

46.

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

47.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

48.

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

49.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

50.

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