Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Rochlin, Harriet

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

2.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

3.

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

The Talmud

4.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

5.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

6.

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

Twain, Mark

7.

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

Chazal, Malcolm De

8.

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

Luther, Martin

9.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

10.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

11.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

12.

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

13.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

14.

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

15.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

16.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

17.

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

Paul, Jean

18.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

19.

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

Proverb, French

20.

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

21.

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

Bodett, Tom

22.

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

23.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

24.

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

25.

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

Stephen King

26.

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

Betty White

27.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

28.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

29.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

30.

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

James, William

31.

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

32.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

33.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

34.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

35.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

36.

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

Jimmy Buffett

37.

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

38.

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

39.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

40.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

41.

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

Holden, Robert

42.

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

Kundera, Milan

43.

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

Mizner, Wilson

44.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

45.

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

46.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

47.

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

48.

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

Bob Newhart

49.

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

50.

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

Jay Leno