Motivational Quotes

Laughter

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

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

2.

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

3.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

4.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Byron, Lord

9.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

10.

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

11.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

12.

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

Edgar Watson Howe

13.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

14.

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

15.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

16.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

17.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

18.

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

Luther, Martin

19.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

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

21.

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

Addison, Joseph

22.

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

Holden, Robert

23.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

24.

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

25.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

26.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

27.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

28.

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

29.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

30.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

31.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

32.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

33.

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

Kundera, Milan

34.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

35.

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

Cousins, Norman

36.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

37.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

38.

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

39.

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

Mencken, H. L.

40.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

41.

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

James, William

42.

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

43.

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

Twain, Mark

44.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

45.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

46.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

47.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

48.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

49.

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

Balzac, Honore De

50.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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