Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Howe, Edgar Watson

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

2.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

3.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

4.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

5.

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

6.

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

Edgar Watson Howe

7.

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

Mencken, H. L.

8.

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

9.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

10.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

11.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

12.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

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

Luther, Martin

14.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

15.

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

16.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

17.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

18.

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

19.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

20.

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

Mizner, Wilson

21.

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

Betty White

22.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

23.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

24.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

25.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

26.

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

Jay Leno

27.

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

James, William

28.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

29.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

30.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

31.

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

32.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

33.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

34.

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

Addison, Joseph

35.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

36.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Joseph Addison

40.

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

41.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

42.

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

43.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

Maugham, W. Somerset

44.

Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.

South, Bishop Robert

45.

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

46.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

47.

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

West, Mae

48.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

49.

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

50.

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

Jimmy Buffett