Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

2.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

3.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

4.

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

Bob Newhart

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

8.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

9.

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

Cousins, Norman

10.

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

Holden, Robert

11.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

12.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

13.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

14.

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

15.

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

Proverb, French

16.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

17.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

18.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

19.

I am persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more so when he laughs, it adds something to this fragment of life.

Sterne, Laurence

20.

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

Betty White

21.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

22.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

23.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

24.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

25.

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

The Talmud

26.

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

Kundera, Milan

27.

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

Thurber, James

28.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

29.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

31.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

32.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

33.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

34.

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

West, Mae

35.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

36.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

37.

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

38.

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

Stephen King

39.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

40.

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

41.

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

42.

You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.

Jay Leno

43.

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

Twain, Mark

44.

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

45.

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

Byron, Lord

46.

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

47.

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

Paul, Jean

48.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

49.

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

Seneca

50.

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