Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

4.

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

Jimmy Buffett

5.

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

Eastman, Max

6.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

7.

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

Johnson, Samuel

8.

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

12.

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

Balzac, Honore De

13.

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

Holden, Robert

14.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

15.

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

16.

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

Jay Leno

17.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

18.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

19.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

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

21.

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

Byron, Lord

22.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

23.

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

Mencken, H. L.

24.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

25.

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

Holden, Robert

26.

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

James, William

27.

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

28.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

29.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

30.

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

31.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

32.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

33.

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

Proverb, French

34.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

35.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

36.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

37.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

38.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

39.

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

Mizner, Wilson

40.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

41.

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

42.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

43.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

44.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

45.

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