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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Laugh often,Dream big,Reach for the stars!
Laugh often,Dream big,Reach for the stars!
Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that read more
Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.
Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least:
For wit is news only to ignorance.
Lesse read more
Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least:
For wit is news only to ignorance.
Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest
Thy person share, and the conceit advance.
Suspense is worse than disappointment.
Suspense is worse than disappointment.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known.
They that love mirth, let them heartily drink,
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Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known.
They that love mirth, let them heartily drink,
'Tis the only receipt to make sorrow sink.
For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that
which he laughs at, than that which he read more
For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that
which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.
[Lat., Discit enim citius, meminitque libentius ilud
Quod quis deridet, quam quod probat et veneratur.]
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.