Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

2.

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

3.

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

Thurber, James

4.

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

Jimmy Buffett

5.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

6.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

7.

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

Twain, Mark

8.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

9.

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

10.

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

Kundera, Milan

11.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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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

13.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

14.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

15.

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

Cousins, Norman

16.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

17.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

18.

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

19.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

20.

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

Addison, Joseph

21.

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

James, William

22.

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

Bob Newhart

23.

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

Bill Nye

24.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

25.

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

26.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

27.

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

Eastman, Max

28.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

29.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

30.

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

Holden, Robert

31.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

32.

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

Jay Leno

33.

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

Luther, Martin

34.

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

Byron, Lord

35.

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

36.

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

Betty White

37.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

42.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

43.

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

Balzac, Honore De