Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Kundera, Milan

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

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

Kundera, Milan

2.

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

3.

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

Holden, Robert

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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

5.

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

6.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

7.

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

9.

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

10.

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

Larry Gelbart

11.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

12.

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

Edgar Watson Howe

13.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

14.

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

James, William

15.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

16.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

17.

If you can laugh at it then you can live with it

18.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

19.

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

20.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

21.

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

22.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

23.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

24.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

26.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

27.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

28.

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

29.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

30.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

31.

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

Bodett, Tom

32.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

33.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

34.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

38.

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

Boswell, James

39.

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

40.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

41.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

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

Bob Newhart

43.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell