Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- West, Mae

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

2.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

3.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

4.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

5.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

6.

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

7.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

8.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

9.

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

10.

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

Edgar Watson Howe

11.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

12.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

13.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

14.

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

15.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

16.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

17.

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

Boswell, James

18.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

19.

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

Balzac, Honore De

20.

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

The Talmud

21.

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

Holden, Robert

22.

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

Betty White

23.

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

24.

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

25.

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

James, William

26.

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

27.

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

28.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

29.

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

30.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

31.

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

Bodett, Tom

32.

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

33.

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

Jay Leno

34.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

35.

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

Proverb, French

36.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

37.

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

Larry Gelbart

38.

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

West, Mae

39.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

40.

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

Byron, Lord

41.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

42.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

43.

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

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.

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

Mencken, H. L.

46.

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

Bob Newhart

47.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

48.

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

49.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

50.

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

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