Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

2.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

3.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

4.

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

5.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

6.

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

Eastman, Max

7.

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

8.

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

Joseph Addison

9.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

10.

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

Larry Gelbart

11.

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

Kundera, Milan

12.

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

Thurber, James

13.

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

Holden, Robert

14.

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

Jay Leno

15.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

16.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

17.

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

18.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

19.

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Bob Newhart

20.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

21.

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

Paul, Jean

22.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

23.

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

Stephen King

24.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might of been.

Hazlitt, William

25.

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

Cousins, Norman

26.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

27.

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

Betty White

28.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

29.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

30.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

31.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

32.

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

West, Mae

33.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

34.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

35.

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

Johnson, Samuel

36.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

37.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

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

Balzac, Honore De

39.

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

40.

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

41.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

42.

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

Mencken, H. L.

43.

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

44.

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

Byron, Lord

45.

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

46.

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

Jimmy Buffett

47.

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

Bodett, Tom

48.

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

Twain, Mark

49.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

50.

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