Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

2.

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

Johnson, Samuel

3.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

4.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

5.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

6.

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

7.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

8.

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

Twain, Mark

9.

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

10.

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

Joseph Addison

11.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

12.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

13.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

14.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

15.

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

Eastman, Max

16.

Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.

Chesterfield, Lord

17.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

18.

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

Twain, Mark

19.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

20.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Addison, Joseph

21.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

22.

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

Cousins, Norman

23.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

24.

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

Bob Newhart

25.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

26.

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

27.

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

28.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

29.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

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

31.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

32.

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

Proverb, French

33.

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

Larry Gelbart

34.

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Boswell, James

35.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

36.

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

37.

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

38.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

39.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

40.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

41.

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

42.

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

43.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

44.

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

Stephen King

45.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

46.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

47.

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

Paul, Jean

48.

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

Jimmy Buffett

49.

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

50.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert