Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

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.

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

3.

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

Bob Newhart

4.

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

Jay Leno

5.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

6.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

7.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

8.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

9.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

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

West, Mae

11.

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

Holden, Robert

12.

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

Kundera, Milan

13.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

14.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

15.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

16.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

19.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

20.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

21.

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

Twain, Mark

22.

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

23.

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

Joseph Addison

24.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

25.

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

Stephen King

26.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

27.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

28.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

29.

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

Johnson, Samuel

30.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

31.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

32.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

34.

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

35.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

36.

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

Luther, Martin

37.

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

Betty White

38.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

39.

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

Mencken, H. L.

40.

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

41.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

42.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

43.

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

Larry Gelbart

44.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

45.

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

46.

Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.

Baudrillard, Jean

47.

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

Cousins, Norman

48.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

49.

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

50.

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

Jimmy Buffett