Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

2.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

3.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

4.

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

5.

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

Jay Leno

6.

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

Stephen King

7.

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

Joseph Addison

8.

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

9.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

10.

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

11.

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

Bodett, Tom

12.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

13.

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

Holden, Robert

14.

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

Holden, Robert

15.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

16.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

17.

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

18.

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

Cousins, Norman

19.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

20.

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

Paul, Jean

21.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

22.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

23.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

24.

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

James, William

25.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

26.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

27.

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

Betty White

28.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

29.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

30.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

31.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

32.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

33.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

34.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

36.

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

Bill Nye

37.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

38.

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

39.

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

Twain, Mark

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

West, Mae

48.

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

Mencken, H. L.

49.

There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.

Dietrich, Marlene