Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- The Talmud

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

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

Larry Gelbart

2.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

3.

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

Paul, Jean

4.

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

5.

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

Boswell, James

6.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

7.

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

Twain, Mark

8.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

9.

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

Bob Newhart

10.

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

11.

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

12.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

13.

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

Byron, Lord

14.

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

Addison, Joseph

15.

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

16.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

17.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

18.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

19.

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

20.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

21.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

22.

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

23.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

24.

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

Bodett, Tom

25.

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

Mencken, H. L.

26.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

27.

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

Luther, Martin

28.

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

29.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

30.

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

31.

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

Cousins, Norman

32.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

33.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

34.

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

35.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

36.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

37.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

38.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

39.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Jimmy Buffett

42.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

43.

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

Thurber, James

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

47.

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

Stephen King

48.

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

Eastman, Max

49.

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

Balzac, Honore De

50.

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