Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

2.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

3.

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

Holden, Robert

4.

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

West, Mae

5.

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

6.

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

Luther, Martin

7.

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

8.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

9.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

10.

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

Byron, Lord

11.

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

12.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

13.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

14.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

15.

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

Stephen King

16.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

17.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

18.

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

Balzac, Honore De

19.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

20.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

21.

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

22.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

23.

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

Mizner, Wilson

24.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

25.

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

26.

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

Kundera, Milan

27.

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

Jay Leno

28.

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

Johnson, Samuel

29.

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

Paul, Jean

30.

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

31.

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

Joseph Addison

32.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

33.

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

Bodett, Tom

34.

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

Larry Gelbart

35.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

36.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

37.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

38.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

40.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

41.

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

42.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

43.

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

44.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

45.

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

Proverb, French

46.

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

47.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

48.

Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.

Mandino, Og

49.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

50.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell