Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Beaumarchais, Pierre De

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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 most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

4.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

5.

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

Luther, Martin

6.

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

Stephen King

7.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

8.

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

9.

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

Holden, Robert

10.

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

Kundera, Milan

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb, French

13.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

14.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

15.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

16.

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

The Talmud

17.

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

18.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

19.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

20.

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

21.

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

Twain, Mark

22.

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

Addison, Joseph

23.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

24.

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

25.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

26.

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

27.

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

Larry Gelbart

28.

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

Jimmy Buffett

29.

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

30.

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

31.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

32.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

33.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

34.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

35.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

36.

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

37.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

38.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

39.

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

40.

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

Bill Nye

41.

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

42.

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

Bodett, Tom

43.

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

Byron, Lord

44.

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

Joseph Addison

45.

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

46.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

47.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

48.

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

Balzac, Honore De

49.

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