Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

- Graffiti

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

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

2.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

3.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

4.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

5.

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

Holden, Robert

6.

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

7.

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

Thurber, James

8.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

9.

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

Byron, Lord

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

James, William

13.

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

Seneca

14.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

15.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

16.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

17.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

18.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

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

Bob Newhart

20.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

21.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

22.

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

23.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

24.

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

Larry Gelbart

25.

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

Jay Leno

26.

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

27.

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

Proverb, French

28.

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

The Talmud

29.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

30.

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

Paul, Jean

31.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

32.

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

33.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

34.

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

Edgar Watson Howe

35.

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

36.

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

Holden, Robert

37.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

38.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

39.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

41.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

42.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

43.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

44.

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

Mencken, H. L.

45.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

46.

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

Twain, Mark

47.

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

Addison, Joseph

48.

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

Balzac, Honore De

49.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

50.

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