Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

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

2.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

3.

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

4.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

5.

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

Jay Leno

6.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

7.

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

Thurber, James

8.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

9.

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

Betty White

10.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

11.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

12.

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

13.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

14.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

15.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

16.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

17.

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

Holden, Robert

18.

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

19.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

21.

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

Seneca

22.

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

Paul, Jean

23.

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

Holden, Robert

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.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

26.

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

Stephen King

27.

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

West, Mae

28.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

29.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

30.

Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer.

Rochlin, Harriet

31.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

32.

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

Larry Gelbart

33.

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

34.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

35.

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

Bill Nye

36.

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

The Talmud

37.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

38.

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

Luther, Martin

39.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

40.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

41.

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

Joseph Addison

42.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

43.

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

Eastman, Max

44.

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

45.

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

Byron, Lord

46.

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

Balzac, Honore De

47.

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

48.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

49.

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

Twain, Mark

50.

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