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To laugh were want of goodness and of grace; And to be grave, exceeds all pow'r of face. - Alexander Pope, Prologue to Satires (l. 35) He laughs best who laughs last. - Proverb Wrinkle not thy face with too much laughter, lest thou become ridiculous; neither wanton thy heart with too much mirth, lest thou become vain: the suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools. - Francis Quarles The laughter of girls is, and ever was, among the delightful sounds of earth. - Thomas De Quincey ("The Opium Eater") That laughter costs too much, which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency. - Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus) A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue. [Lat., Nimium risus pretium est, si probitatis impendio constat.] - Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus), De Institutione Oratoria (VI, 3, 5) One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man. - Francois Rabelais, To the Readers He who laughs on Friday will weep on Sunday. [Fr., Tel qui rit vendredi, dimanche pleurera.] - Jean Baptiste Racine, Plaideurs (I, 1) Better the last smile than the first laughter. - John Ray (Wray), Collection of Old English Proverbs Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature. - Agnes Repplier Has he gone to the land of no laughter, The man who made mirth for us all? - James Rhoades, Death of Artemus Ward No one will be more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much. [Ger., Nimand wird tiefer traurig als wer zu viel lachelt.] - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul), Hesperus (XIX) We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can. - Will Rogers More people laugh at us than with us, however it may appear at the moment. - Giovanni Ruffini He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony. - Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche (bk. I, ch. 1) I found people looked better when they laughed. - Mort Sahl He chastizes manners with a laugh. [Lat., Castigat ridendo mores.] - Jean Baptiste de Santeuil (Santeul or Santolius), Motto of the Comedie Italienne, and Opera Comique, Paris A chuckle a day may not keep the doctor away, but it sure does make those times in life's wanting room a little more bearable. - Anne Wilson Schaef Give me an honest laugher. - Sir Walter Scott Making that idiot, laughter, keep men's eyes, And strain their cheeks to idle merriment. - William Shakespeare Oh, I am stabbed with laughter! - William Shakespeare With his eyes in flood with laughter. - William Shakespeare Ay, madam, with his eyes in flood with laughter. - William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (Iachimo at I, vi) The brain of this foolish compounded clay-man is not able to invent anything that intends to laughter more that I invent or is invented on me. - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Fourth, Part II (Falstaff at I, ii) O, you shall see him laugh till his face be like a wet cloak ill laid up! - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Fourth, Part II (Falstaff at V, i) Displaying page 4 of 5 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5
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