Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

- Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

2.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

3.

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

The Talmud

4.

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

Twain, Mark

5.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

6.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

7.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

8.

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

9.

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

10.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

12.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

13.

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

14.

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

Jimmy Buffett

15.

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

Bodett, Tom

16.

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

Betty White

17.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

18.

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

Stephen King

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.

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

Luther, Martin

21.

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

Holden, Robert

22.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

23.

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

Paul, Jean

24.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

25.

Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.

Mandino, Og

26.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

27.

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

28.

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

29.

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

Byron, Lord

30.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

31.

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