Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- The Talmud

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Stephen King

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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

Bill Nye

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

10.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

11.

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

14.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

15.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

16.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

17.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

18.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

19.

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

Luther, Martin

20.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Mizner, Wilson

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

27.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

28.

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

Jay Leno

29.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

32.

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

33.

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

Edgar Watson Howe

34.

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

Joseph Addison

35.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Holden, Robert

37.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

38.

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

Twain, Mark

39.

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

40.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

43.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

44.

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

Johnson, Samuel

45.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

46.

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

47.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

48.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

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

Proverb, French

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

Bierce, Ambrose