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.

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

Jimmy Buffett

2.

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

James, William

3.

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

Bill Nye

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.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

6.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Seneca

10.

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

Edgar Watson Howe

11.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

12.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

13.

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

West, Mae

14.

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

15.

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

Proverb, French

16.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

17.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

18.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

19.

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

20.

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

Jay Leno

21.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

22.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

23.

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

Paul, Jean

24.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

25.

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

Holden, Robert

26.

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

The Talmud

27.

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

28.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

29.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

30.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

31.

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

32.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

33.

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

34.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

35.

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

Thurber, James

36.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

37.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

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

Mencken, H. L.

39.

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

Mizner, Wilson

40.

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

Betty White

41.

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

Twain, Mark

42.

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

43.

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

44.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

45.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

46.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

47.

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

48.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

49.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

50.

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