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.

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

2.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

3.

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

4.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

5.

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

6.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

7.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

8.

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

9.

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

10.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

11.

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

Twain, Mark

12.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

13.

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

14.

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

15.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

16.

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

Twain, Mark

17.

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

18.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

19.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

20.

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

Bob Newhart

21.

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

Luther, Martin

22.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

23.

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

James, William

24.

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

Edgar Watson Howe

25.

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

Holden, Robert

26.

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

Kundera, Milan

27.

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

Larry Gelbart

28.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

29.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

30.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

31.

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

32.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

It is easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

34.

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

35.

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

West, Mae

36.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

37.

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Boswell, James

38.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

39.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

40.

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

41.

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

Johnson, Samuel

42.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

43.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

44.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.