Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

2.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

3.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

4.

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

5.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

6.

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

Byron, Lord

7.

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

8.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

9.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

10.

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

Luther, Martin

11.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

12.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

13.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

14.

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

The Talmud

15.

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

West, Mae

16.

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

Seneca

17.

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

18.

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

Edgar Watson Howe

19.

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

20.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

21.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

22.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

23.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

24.

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

Jimmy Buffett

25.

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

Twain, Mark

26.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

27.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

28.

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

29.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

30.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

31.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

32.

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

Mencken, H. L.

33.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

34.

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

35.

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -- hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

Thurber, James

36.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

37.

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

38.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

42.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

43.

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

Stephen King

44.

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

45.

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

Bill Nye

46.

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

47.

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

48.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

49.

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

Jay Leno

50.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl