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

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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

2.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

3.

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

Mizner, Wilson

4.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

5.

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

Johnson, Samuel

6.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

7.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

8.

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

9.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

10.

I am persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more so when he laughs, it adds something to this fragment of life.

Sterne, Laurence

11.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

We don't laugh because we're happy -- we're happy because we laugh.

James, William

17.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

18.

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

19.

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

Thurber, James

20.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

21.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

22.

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

Mencken, H. L.

23.

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

Paul, Jean

24.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

26.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

27.

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

Twain, Mark

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.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

30.

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

Seneca

31.

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

32.

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

Jimmy Buffett

33.

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

34.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

35.

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

Twain, Mark

36.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Stephen King

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.

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

Bob Newhart

42.

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.