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If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.
If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.
Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it around like marmelade.
Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it around like marmelade.
I have known sorrow--therefore I
May laugh with you, O friend, more merrily
Than those who never read more
I have known sorrow--therefore I
May laugh with you, O friend, more merrily
Than those who never sorrowed upon earth
And know not laughter's worth.
I have known laughter--therefore I
May sorrow with you far more tenderly
Than those who never guess how sad a thing
Seems merriment to one heart's suffering.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people read more
Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
The most completely lost of all days is that on which one has not
laughed.
[Fr., La plus read more
The most completely lost of all days is that on which one has not
laughed.
[Fr., La plus perdue de toutes les journees est celle ou l'on n'a
pas rit.]
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
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.]
