Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Stephen King

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

2.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

3.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

4.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

5.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

6.

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

Johnson, Samuel

7.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

8.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

9.

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

Boswell, James

10.

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

Mizner, Wilson

11.

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

Twain, Mark

12.

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

Proverb, French

13.

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

14.

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

Joseph Addison

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Eastman, Max

18.

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

James, William

19.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

20.

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

Edgar Watson Howe

21.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

22.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

23.

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

24.

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

West, Mae

25.

If you can laugh at it then you can live with it

26.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

27.

We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the yak, the belly laugh, and the dozen other labels for the roll- em-in-the-aisles gagerissimo. This is the kind of laugh that delights actors, directors, and producers, but dismays writers of comedy because it is the laugh that often dies in the lobby. The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

Thurber, James

28.

A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

29.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

31.

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

Jay Leno

32.

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

Seneca

33.

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

34.

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

Holden, Robert

35.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

36.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

37.

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

38.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

39.

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

40.

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

Kundera, Milan

41.

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

42.

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

Addison, Joseph

43.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

44.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

45.

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