Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

2.

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

Paul, Jean

3.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

4.

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

5.

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

6.

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

Holden, Robert

7.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

8.

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

9.

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

Byron, Lord

10.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

11.

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

12.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

13.

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

14.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

15.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

16.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

18.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might of been.

Hazlitt, William

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Joseph Addison

22.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

23.

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

Bill Nye

24.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

27.

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

Twain, Mark

28.

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

Bob Newhart

29.

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

Proverb, French

30.

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

31.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

32.

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

33.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

34.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

35.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

36.

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

37.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

38.

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

Holden, Robert

39.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

40.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

41.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

42.

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

Jay Leno

43.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

44.

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

Jimmy Buffett

45.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

46.

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

West, Mae

47.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

48.

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

49.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

50.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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