Motivational Quotes

Laughter

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

West, Mae

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Paul, Jean

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

Eastman, Max

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

10.

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

11.

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

Seneca

12.

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

Balzac, Honore De

13.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

14.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

15.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

16.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

18.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

19.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

20.

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

Johnson, Samuel

21.

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

Jimmy Buffett

22.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

23.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

24.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

25.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

26.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

27.

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Boswell, James

28.

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

Jay Leno

29.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

30.

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

Bill Nye

31.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

32.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

33.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

34.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

35.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

36.

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

37.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Stephen King

38.

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

Thurber, James

39.

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

James, William

40.

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

41.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

42.

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

43.

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

Mizner, Wilson

44.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

45.

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

Mencken, H. L.

46.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

47.

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

Proverb, French

48.

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

Twain, Mark

49.

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

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

Holden, Robert