Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

2.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

3.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

7.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

8.

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

Holden, Robert

9.

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

10.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

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

Eastman, Max

12.

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

Joseph Addison

13.

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

Paul, Jean

14.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

15.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

16.

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

Balzac, Honore De

17.

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

Larry Gelbart

18.

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

19.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

20.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

21.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

22.

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

23.

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

24.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

25.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

26.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

27.

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

Twain, Mark

28.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

29.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

30.

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

31.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

32.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

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

Stephen King

35.

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

36.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

37.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

38.

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

39.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

40.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

41.

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

42.

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

Seneca

43.

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

44.

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

Jay Leno

45.

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

James, William

46.

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

47.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

48.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

49.

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

Bob Newhart

50.

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