Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

2.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

3.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

4.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

5.

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

Bodett, Tom

6.

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

Proverb, French

7.

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

Larry Gelbart

8.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

9.

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

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.

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

Johnson, Samuel

12.

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

Stephen King

13.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

14.

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

Mizner, Wilson

15.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

17.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

18.

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

Bill Nye

19.

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

Kundera, Milan

20.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

21.

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

Byron, Lord

22.

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

23.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

24.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

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

Betty White

26.

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

27.

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

Seneca

28.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

29.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

30.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

31.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

32.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

33.

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

Addison, Joseph

34.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

35.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

36.

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

Jimmy Buffett

37.

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

38.

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

39.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

40.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

41.

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

Holden, Robert

42.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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.

Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.

South, Bishop Robert

45.

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

The Talmud

46.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

West, Mae

50.

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

Rochlin, Harriet