Motivational Quotes

Laughter

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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.

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

3.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

4.

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

Paul, Jean

5.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

6.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

7.

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

8.

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

9.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

10.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

11.

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

Thurber, James

12.

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

Johnson, Samuel

13.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

14.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

15.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

16.

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

17.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

18.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

19.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

20.

Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.

Mandino, Og

21.

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

Byron, Lord

22.

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

Betty White

23.

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

24.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

25.

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

Jay Leno

26.

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

Edgar Watson Howe

27.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

29.

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

Holden, Robert

30.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

31.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

32.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

33.

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

34.

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

Joseph Addison

35.

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

Bill Nye

36.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

37.

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

Cousins, Norman

38.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

39.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

40.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

41.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

42.

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

43.

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

Holden, Robert

44.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

45.

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

Seneca

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

49.

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

50.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward