Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

- Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

2.

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

3.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

4.

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

Stephen King

5.

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

Boswell, James

6.

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

West, Mae

7.

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

Bill Nye

8.

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

9.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

10.

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

11.

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

12.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

13.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

14.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

15.

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

16.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

17.

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

Edgar Watson Howe

18.

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

Mizner, Wilson

19.

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

Balzac, Honore De

20.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

21.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

22.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

23.

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

Larry Gelbart

24.

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

25.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

26.

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

Eastman, Max

27.

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

Bob Newhart

28.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

29.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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

Joseph Addison

32.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

33.

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

Holden, Robert

34.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

35.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

36.

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

Mencken, H. L.

37.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

38.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

39.

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

40.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

41.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

42.

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

43.

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

Addison, Joseph

44.

Laughter -- An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

Bierce, Ambrose

45.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

46.

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

47.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas