Motivational Quotes

Laughter

The more laws, the more offenders.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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.

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

4.

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

Mizner, Wilson

5.

There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams and stamps its feet, and sets the bells jangling in the next town. Laughter in all its ignorance and cruelty. Laughter with the seed of Satan in it. It tramples upon shrines; the belly-roarer. It roars, it yells, it is delirious: and yet it is as cold as ice. It has no humor. It is naked noise and naked malice.

Peake, Mervyn

6.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

7.

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

Larry Gelbart

8.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

9.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

10.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

11.

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

Bill Nye

12.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

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

14.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

15.

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

16.

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

Betty White

17.

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

18.

Laughing is not always the proof of a mind at ease.

Proverb, French

19.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

20.

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

Holden, Robert

21.

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

Luther, Martin

22.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

23.

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

24.

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

James, William

25.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

26.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

27.

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

Twain, Mark

28.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

29.

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

Mencken, H. L.

30.

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

Edgar Watson Howe

31.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

32.

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

Seneca

33.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

34.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

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

Joseph Addison

36.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

37.

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

West, Mae

38.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

39.

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

Holden, Robert

40.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

41.

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

Balzac, Honore De

42.

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

Jay Leno

43.

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

Jimmy Buffett

44.

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

45.

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

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.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

48.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

49.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

50.

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