Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

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

Seneca

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Edgar Watson Howe

5.

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

6.

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

The Talmud

7.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

8.

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

Twain, Mark

9.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Luther, Martin

13.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

14.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

15.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

16.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

17.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

18.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

19.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

20.

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

Boswell, James

21.

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

22.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

23.

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

24.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

25.

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

26.

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

27.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

28.

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

Bob Newhart

29.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

30.

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

Jay Leno

31.

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

Cousins, Norman

32.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

Balzac, Honore De

34.

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

Proverb, French

35.

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

Betty White

36.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

37.

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

38.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

39.

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

Bodett, Tom

40.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

41.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

42.

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

Stephen King

43.

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

Holden, Robert

44.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

45.

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

46.

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

Johnson, Samuel

47.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

48.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

49.

Every new time will give its law.