Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- West, Mae

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

2.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

3.

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

Balzac, Honore De

4.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

5.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Jimmy Buffett

9.

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

Bill Nye

10.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

11.

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

Twain, Mark

12.

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

Edgar Watson Howe

13.

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

14.

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

Stephen King

15.

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

Jay Leno

16.

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

17.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

18.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

19.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

20.

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

Seneca

21.

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

22.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

23.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

24.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

25.

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

26.

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

27.

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

28.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

29.

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

30.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

31.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

32.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

33.

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

Mencken, H. L.

34.

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

Byron, Lord

35.

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

36.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

37.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

38.

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

Twain, Mark

39.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

40.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

41.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

42.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

43.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

44.

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

45.

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

Kundera, Milan

46.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

47.

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

48.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

49.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

50.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward