Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

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

Jimmy Buffett

2.

I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has heard me laugh.

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

3.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

4.

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

Mencken, H. L.

5.

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

6.

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

Cousins, Norman

7.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

8.

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

Proverb, French

9.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

10.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

11.

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

Bob Newhart

12.

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

The Talmud

13.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

15.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

16.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

17.

There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.

Dietrich, Marlene

18.

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

Twain, Mark

19.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

20.

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

Jay Leno

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Johnson, Samuel

24.

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Boswell, James

25.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

26.

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

27.

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

Kundera, Milan

28.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

29.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

30.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

31.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

32.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

33.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

34.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

35.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

36.

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

37.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

38.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Bodett, Tom

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Balzac, Honore De

43.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

44.

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

45.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

46.

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

47.

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

48.

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

Luther, Martin

49.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

50.

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