Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

- Proverb, Japanese

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

2.

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

Seneca

3.

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

Stephen King

4.

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

Jimmy Buffett

5.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

6.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

7.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

8.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

9.

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

10.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

12.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

13.

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

Bodett, Tom

14.

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

15.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

16.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

18.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

19.

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

Thurber, James

20.

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

Twain, Mark

21.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Joseph Addison

25.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

26.

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

West, Mae

27.

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

28.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

29.

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

Betty White

30.

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

The Talmud

31.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

32.

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

Paul, Jean

33.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

34.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

35.

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

Byron, Lord

36.

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

Larry Gelbart

37.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

38.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

39.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

40.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

41.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

43.

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

Proverb, French

44.

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

Twain, Mark

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

48.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

49.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

50.

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