Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

2.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

3.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

7.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

8.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

9.

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

10.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

11.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

12.

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

Holden, Robert

13.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

14.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

15.

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

16.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

17.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

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

Luther, Martin

19.

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

The Talmud

20.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

21.

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

22.

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

Thurber, James

23.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Seneca

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There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams and stamps its feet, and sets the bells jangling in the next town. Laughter in all its ignorance and cruelty. Laughter with the seed of Satan in it. It tramples upon shrines; the belly-roarer. It roars, it yells, it is delirious: and yet it is as cold as ice. It has no humor. It is naked noise and naked malice.

Peake, Mervyn

28.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

29.

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

30.

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

Kundera, Milan

31.

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

Jay Leno

32.

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

33.

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

Boswell, James

34.

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

Johnson, Samuel

35.

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

Joseph Addison

36.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

37.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

38.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

39.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

40.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

41.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

42.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

43.

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

Twain, Mark

44.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

46.

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

Jimmy Buffett

47.

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

48.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

49.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

50.

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

Larry Gelbart