Motivational Quotes

Laughter

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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

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

Holden, Robert

10.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

11.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

12.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

13.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

14.

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

James, William

15.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

16.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

17.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

18.

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

Johnson, Samuel

19.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

20.

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

21.

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

Addison, Joseph

22.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

23.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

24.

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

25.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Holden, Robert

29.

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

30.

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

Mizner, Wilson

31.

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

Seneca

32.

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

Edgar Watson Howe

33.

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

West, Mae

34.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

39.

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

Proverb, French

40.

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

Balzac, Honore De

41.

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