Motivational Quotes

Laughter

He who laughs, lasts!

- Mary Pettibone Poole

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

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

Seneca

2.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

3.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

4.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

5.

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

Byron, Lord

6.

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

West, Mae

7.

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

8.

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

Balzac, Honore De

9.

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

10.

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

11.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Addison, Joseph

12.

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

Bob Newhart

13.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

15.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

16.

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

Mizner, Wilson

17.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

18.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

19.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

20.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

21.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

22.

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

23.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

24.

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

25.

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

Jimmy Buffett

26.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

27.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

29.

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent relieves we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.

Chazal, Malcolm De

30.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

31.

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

Holden, Robert

32.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

34.

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

35.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

36.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

37.

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

Twain, Mark

38.

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

Bodett, Tom

39.

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

40.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

41.

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

Twain, Mark

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

45.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

46.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

47.

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

Holden, Robert

48.

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

The Talmud

49.

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

Thurber, James

50.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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