Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

2.

The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

Carlyle, Thomas

3.

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

4.

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

Bodett, Tom

5.

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

Eastman, Max

6.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

7.

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

Luther, Martin

8.

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

Mencken, H. L.

9.

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

Twain, Mark

10.

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

11.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

12.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

13.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

14.

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

15.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

18.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

19.

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

Twain, Mark

20.

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

Addison, Joseph

21.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

22.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

24.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

25.

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

Johnson, Samuel

26.

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

Mizner, Wilson

27.

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

Bill Nye

28.

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

Larry Gelbart

29.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

30.

You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself.

Barrymore, Ethel

31.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

32.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

33.

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

The Talmud

34.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

35.

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

36.

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

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.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

39.

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

Holden, Robert

40.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

41.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

42.

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

Cousins, Norman

43.

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

James, William

44.

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

Betty White

45.

It is easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

46.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

47.

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

Paul, Jean

48.

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

49.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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