Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.

I'm a very serious person, but I don't take myself very seriously and I would rather laugh all day than argue.

If you can make someone laugh who's dead set against you, that's the first step to winning them over to your side.

Don't trust people who don't laugh. I don't.

...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate.

To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast

I am serious, so I laugh a lot. You need to laugh. You don't laugh enough. I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.

Laughter is a sense of proportion and a power of seeing yourself from the outside.

This is getting funny, but there ain't nobody laughing.

I can be quite serious sometimes so laughing is key.

If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.

I learned early in life that laughter is a great way to diffuse and uncomfortable situation, so I began to use that as a tool, throughout my life.

Okay, sense of humor: plus one. Being able to laugh at yourself: plus one. Being able to laugh at other people without being mean: plus one. Vanity: minus one.

Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.

Fun is fun but no girl wants to laugh all of the time.

Don't be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don't condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties.

A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.

I pity anyone who can't laugh. There must be something wrong with their religion or their lives. The devil can't laugh.

I like to be around people who make me laugh. It's one of my favorite things on a set. I hate it when people take themselves serious in a film set.

Some things just strike me as funny. The way things play out just makes me laugh sometimes. It drives my wife crazy sometimes because I'll just be laughing for no reason.

Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.

What was your secret?" That brought another smile. "Learn to laugh, otherwise, you'll beat them to death with a hammer first chance

Were't not for laughing, I should pity him.

Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.

The trouble with you people is that you don't laugh enough.