Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- James, William

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

2.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

3.

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

4.

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

5.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

6.

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

Luther, Martin

7.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

8.

There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.

Gogol, Nikolai Vasilyevich

9.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

11.

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

Bodett, Tom

12.

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

Bob Newhart

13.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

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

James, William

15.

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

Seneca

16.

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

17.

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

Thurber, James

18.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

19.

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

Edgar Watson Howe

20.

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

Boswell, James

21.

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

Stephen King

22.

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

Betty White

23.

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

Proverb, French

24.

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

Paul, Jean

25.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

26.

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

27.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

28.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

29.

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

Holden, Robert

30.

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

West, Mae

31.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

32.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

33.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

34.

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

35.

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

Balzac, Honore De

36.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

37.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

38.

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

Holden, Robert

39.

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

Jimmy Buffett

40.

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

41.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

42.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

43.

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

44.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

45.

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

46.

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

Larry Gelbart

47.

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

48.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

49.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

50.

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer