Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Boswell, James

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

2.

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

The Talmud

3.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

4.

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

5.

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent relieves we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.

Chazal, Malcolm De

6.

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

Proverb, French

7.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

8.

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

Mizner, Wilson

9.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

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

Mencken, H. L.

11.

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

Luther, Martin

12.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

13.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

16.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

17.

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

Bob Newhart

18.

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

19.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

20.

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

21.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

22.

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

23.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

24.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

25.

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

Balzac, Honore De

26.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

27.

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

28.

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

Seneca

29.

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

Boswell, James

30.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

31.

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

Addison, Joseph

32.

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

Paul, Jean

33.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

34.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

35.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

36.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

37.

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

Larry Gelbart

38.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

39.

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

Twain, Mark

40.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

44.

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

Johnson, Samuel

45.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

46.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

47.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

48.

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

49.

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

Twain, Mark

50.

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

Kundera, Milan