Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

2.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

3.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

4.

She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.

Franklin, Benjamin

5.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

6.

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

Edgar Watson Howe

7.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

8.

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

Luther, Martin

9.

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

10.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

11.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

12.

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

Proverb, French

13.

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

14.

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

Jimmy Buffett

15.

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

West, Mae

16.

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

Kundera, Milan

17.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

18.

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

19.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

20.

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

Betty White

21.

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

Paul, Jean

22.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

23.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

24.

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

25.

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

Mizner, Wilson

26.

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

Twain, Mark

27.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

28.

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

29.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

30.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

31.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

32.

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

Bob Newhart

33.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

34.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

35.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

36.

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

37.

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

Boswell, James

38.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

39.

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Bill Nye

43.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

44.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

45.

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

Eastman, Max

46.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

47.

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

48.

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

Byron, Lord

49.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

50.

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