Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

- Elsa Maxwell

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

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

Seneca

2.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

3.

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

Thurber, James

4.

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

Bob Newhart

5.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

6.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

7.

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

Kundera, Milan

8.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

9.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

10.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

11.

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

The Talmud

12.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

13.

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

14.

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

James, William

15.

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

Paul, Jean

16.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

17.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Addison, Joseph

18.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

19.

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

20.

If you can laugh at it then you can live with it

21.

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

22.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

23.

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

Mizner, Wilson

24.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

26.

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

27.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

28.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

29.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

30.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

31.

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

32.

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

Stephen King

33.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

34.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

35.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

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

37.

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

Holden, Robert

38.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

39.

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

40.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

41.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

42.

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

43.

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

Jimmy Buffett

44.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

45.

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

West, Mae

46.

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

Balzac, Honore De