Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

2.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

3.

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

4.

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

Betty White

5.

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

Edgar Watson Howe

6.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

7.

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

Jimmy Buffett

8.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

9.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

10.

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

11.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

12.

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

Larry Gelbart

13.

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

14.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

15.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

16.

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

Johnson, Samuel

17.

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

Cousins, Norman

18.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

19.

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

Boswell, James

20.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

21.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

22.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

23.

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

Connery, Sean

24.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

26.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

27.

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

28.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

29.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

30.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

31.

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

Stephen King

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

38.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

39.

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

Eastman, Max

40.

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

41.

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

Paul, Jean

42.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

43.

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

44.

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

Seneca

45.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

46.

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

Balzac, Honore De

47.

They laugh well who laugh last.