Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

2.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

3.

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

Thurber, James

4.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

5.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

6.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

7.

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

Jimmy Buffett

8.

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

Kundera, Milan

9.

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

10.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

11.

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

Luther, Martin

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.

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

Jay Leno

14.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

19.

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

20.

A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.

Hitchcock, Raymond

21.

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

22.

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

Johnson, Samuel

23.

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

Betty White

24.

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

Larry Gelbart

25.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

26.

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

Holden, Robert

27.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

28.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

30.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

31.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

32.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

36.

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

37.

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

Bob Newhart

38.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

39.

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

Boswell, James

40.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

41.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

42.

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

The Talmud

43.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

46.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

47.

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

Bill Nye

48.

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

Joseph Addison

49.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

50.

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