Motivational Quotes

Laughter

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Twain, Mark

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

Addison, Joseph

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

10.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

11.

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

Johnson, Samuel

12.

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

Bob Newhart

13.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

14.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

15.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

16.

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

Byron, Lord

17.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

18.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

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

Boswell, James

20.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

21.

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

Eastman, Max

22.

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

Bill Nye

23.

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

24.

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

Holden, Robert

25.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

26.

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

Luther, Martin

27.

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

Paul, Jean

28.

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

West, Mae

29.

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

Mizner, Wilson

30.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

31.

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

32.

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

Jimmy Buffett

33.

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

Edgar Watson Howe

34.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

35.

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

36.

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

Kundera, Milan

37.

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

Larry Gelbart

38.

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

39.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

40.

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

41.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

42.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

43.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

44.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

45.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

46.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

48.

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

The Talmud

49.

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

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.