Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Kundera, Milan

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

2.

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

Holden, Robert

3.

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

Kundera, Milan

4.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

5.

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

6.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

7.

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

Bob Newhart

8.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

9.

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

10.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

11.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

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

Bill Nye

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.

South, Bishop Robert

17.

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

18.

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

Jimmy Buffett

19.

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

Larry Gelbart

20.

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

21.

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

Luther, Martin

22.

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

James, William

23.

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

24.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

25.

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

26.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

27.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

28.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

29.

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

30.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

31.

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

Paul, Jean

32.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

33.

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

34.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

35.

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

38.

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

39.

The human race has but one really affective weapon, and that is laughter.

Twain, Mark

40.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

41.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

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

Joseph Addison

43.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

44.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

45.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

46.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

47.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

48.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

49.

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

Betty White

50.

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

Bierce, Ambrose