Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

2.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

3.

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

West, Mae

4.

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

5.

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

Addison, Joseph

6.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

7.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

8.

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

Paul, Jean

9.

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

James, William

10.

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

11.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

12.

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

Seneca

13.

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

Bill Nye

14.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

15.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

16.

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

17.

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

Twain, Mark

18.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

19.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Byron, Lord

23.

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

Kundera, Milan

24.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

25.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

26.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

27.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

28.

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

29.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

30.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

31.

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

Larry Gelbart

32.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

The earth laughs in flowers.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

35.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

Joseph Addison

39.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

40.

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

Eastman, Max

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.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

43.

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

Holden, Robert

44.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

45.

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

46.

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

Thurber, James

47.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell