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.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

2.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

3.

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

Eastman, Max

4.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

5.

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

Larry Gelbart

6.

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

Joseph Addison

7.

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

8.

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

West, Mae

9.

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

Stephen King

10.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

11.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

15.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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.

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

Holden, Robert

18.

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

Cousins, Norman

19.

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

20.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

21.

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

Seneca

22.

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

23.

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

24.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

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

26.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

27.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

28.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

29.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

30.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

31.

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

Kundera, Milan

32.

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

Mencken, H. L.

33.

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

Holden, Robert

34.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

35.

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

36.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

37.

I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.

Mizner, Wilson

38.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

39.

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

Balzac, Honore De

40.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

41.

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

42.

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

Bill Nye

43.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

45.

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

Boswell, James

46.

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

47.

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

Twain, Mark

48.

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

49.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

50.

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

James, William