Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

2.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

3.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

4.

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

Balzac, Honore De

5.

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

6.

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

7.

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

8.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

9.

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

The Talmud

10.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

11.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

12.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

13.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

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

James, William

15.

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

Mizner, Wilson

16.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

17.

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

Holden, Robert

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Jay Leno

21.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

22.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

23.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

24.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

25.

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

26.

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

Holden, Robert

27.

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

28.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

29.

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

Luther, Martin

30.

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

Twain, Mark

31.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Bodett, Tom

32.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

33.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

34.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

35.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

36.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

37.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

38.

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

Kundera, Milan

39.

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

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 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

42.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

43.

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent relieves we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.

Chazal, Malcolm De

44.

Laughter does not seem to be a sin, but it leads to sin.

Chrysosatom, St. John

45.

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

Stephen King

46.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

47.

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