Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Holden, Robert

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

2.

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

3.

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

Luther, Martin

4.

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

5.

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

Byron, Lord

6.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

7.

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

Johnson, Samuel

8.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

9.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

10.

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

Twain, Mark

11.

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

Thurber, James

12.

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

13.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

14.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

15.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

16.

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

Holden, Robert

17.

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

18.

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

Addison, Joseph

19.

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

20.

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

21.

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

22.

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

23.

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

Jimmy Buffett

24.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

25.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

26.

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

27.

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

The Talmud

28.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

29.

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

30.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

31.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

32.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

33.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

34.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

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

West, Mae

36.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

37.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

38.

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

Kundera, Milan

39.

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

Edgar Watson Howe

40.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

41.

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

42.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

43.

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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.

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

46.

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

Cousins, Norman

47.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

48.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

49.

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