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

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

Johnson, Samuel

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Stephen King

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

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

Edgar Watson Howe

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

10.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

11.

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

12.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

13.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

14.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

15.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

16.

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

The Talmud

17.

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

Kundera, Milan

18.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

19.

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

Thurber, James

20.

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

21.

Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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

23.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

24.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

25.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

26.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

27.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

28.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

32.

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

Jay Leno

33.

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

34.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

35.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

36.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

37.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

38.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

39.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

40.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

41.

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

Eastman, Max

42.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

43.

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

44.

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

Boswell, James

45.

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

46.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

47.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

49.

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

50.

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

Bill Nye