Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Holden, Robert

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

2.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

3.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

4.

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

5.

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

Byron, Lord

6.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

7.

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

8.

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

Twain, Mark

9.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

12.

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

13.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

14.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

15.

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

16.

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

Larry Gelbart

17.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

18.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

19.

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

Edgar Watson Howe

20.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

21.

We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?

Betty White

22.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

23.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

24.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

25.

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

26.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

27.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

28.

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

29.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

30.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

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

West, Mae

32.

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

33.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

34.

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

Holden, Robert

35.

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

Thurber, James

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

39.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

41.

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

42.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

43.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

44.

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

Jimmy Buffett

45.

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