Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Thurber, James

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

2.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

3.

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

Luther, Martin

4.

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

5.

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

6.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

7.

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

Mizner, Wilson

8.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

9.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

10.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

11.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

12.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

13.

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

Boswell, James

14.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

15.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

16.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

17.

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

Jay Leno

18.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

19.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

20.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

21.

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

22.

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

Edgar Watson Howe

23.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

24.

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

Jimmy Buffett

25.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

26.

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

Thurber, James

27.

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

Betty White

28.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

29.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

30.

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

31.

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

32.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

33.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

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

Eastman, Max

35.

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

Bill Nye

36.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

37.

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

West, Mae

38.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

39.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

40.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

41.

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

Twain, Mark

42.

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

43.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

44.

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

Holden, Robert

45.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

46.

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

Mencken, H. L.

47.

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

48.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

49.

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

Cousins, Norman

50.

I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has heard me laugh.

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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