Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

- Koran, The

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

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

Holden, Robert

2.

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

3.

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

Kundera, Milan

4.

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

5.

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

The Talmud

6.

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

Joseph Addison

7.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

8.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

9.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

10.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

11.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

12.

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

13.

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

14.

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

Holden, Robert

15.

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

16.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

17.

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

Edgar Watson Howe

18.

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

Addison, Joseph

19.

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

Luther, Martin

20.

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

21.

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

Mencken, H. L.

22.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

23.

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

24.

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

Betty White

25.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

26.

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

Boswell, James

27.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

28.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

29.

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

Jimmy Buffett

30.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

31.

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

Thurber, James

32.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

33.

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Bob Newhart

34.

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

West, Mae

35.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

36.

Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.

South, Bishop Robert

37.

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

38.

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

Twain, Mark

39.

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

Larry Gelbart

40.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

41.

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