Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Bob Newhart

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

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

2.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

3.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

4.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

5.

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

6.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

7.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

8.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

9.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

11.

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

Jay Leno

12.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

13.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

14.

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

Jimmy Buffett

15.

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

16.

The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

18.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

19.

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

Cousins, Norman

20.

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

Luther, Martin

21.

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

22.

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

Holden, Robert

23.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

24.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

25.

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

Paul, Jean

26.

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

27.

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

Eastman, Max

28.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

29.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

30.

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

31.

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

Seneca

32.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

33.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

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

Stephen King

35.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

36.

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

Twain, Mark

37.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

38.

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

39.

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -- hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

Thurber, James

40.

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

41.

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

Bill Nye

42.

Laughter is by definition healthy.