Laugh Quotes - 5
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There grows the wild ash; and a time-stricken willow Looks chidingly down on the mirth of the billow, As, like some gay child that sad monitor scorning, It lightly laughs back to the laugh of the morning.
Jeremiah Joseph callanan— 1826 Song 'Gougane Barra'.
There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding.
William Angus McIlvanney— 1985 The Big Man, ch.1.
If you want a definition of poetry, say: 'Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing'and let it go at that.
— 1951 Letter to a student.
It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it'stheway people look and laugh, and runup the steps of omnibuses.
(Adeline) Virginia ne e Stephen Woolf— 1922 Jacob's Room, ch.6.
The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind,And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
Oliver Goldsmith— Line 121.
When we can begin to take our failures nonseriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
katherine mansfield— Journal entry (October 1922), published in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927)
Make 'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait.
Charles Reade— Advice given to an aspiring writer
I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has ever heard me laugh.
stanhope, philip, 4th earl of chesterfield— March 9, 1748.
A set of phrases learnt by rote;A passion for a scarlet coat;When at a play to laugh, or cry,Yet cannot tell the reason why:Never to hold her tongue a minute;While all she prates has nothing in it.
jonathan swift— The Furniture of a Woman's Mind (1727)
But when the madman laughs, he already laughs with the laugh of death; the lunatic, anticipating the macabre, has disarmed it.
— Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault
I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don’t remember ever having seen one weep.
Denis Diderot— "Paradox on Acting" (1830), as quoted in Selected Writings (1966) edited by Lester G. Crocker
I fight with love, and I laugh with rage. You've gotta live light enough to see the humor, And long enough to see some change.
ani difranco— Pick Yer Nose
You don't go into the National Gallery of any famous capital city and cry, sob, laugh, fall about on the floor, become very angry -- it's a completely different reaction. It's a reaction which is to do with a much more composed sense of regarding an image; it's a reaction with a thought process as opposed to an immediate emotional reaction.
Peter Greenaway— From an interview in Art and Design, no. 49
The characteristic poetic strategy of our time refine your singularities is something Auden has not learned; so his best poems are very peculiarly good, nearly the most interesting poems of our time. When he writes badly, we can afford to be angry at him, and he can afford to laugh at us.
Randall Jarrell— “Poetry in a Dry Season”, p. 37
So I watched the Pink Panther last night, and so I'm trying desperately to be funny, and then it's just not working out so good... I wonder if maybe I could've been a comedian or something like that, or maybe I could've been a doctor, then I wouldn't have to make anyone laugh.
dave matthews— Intro to "Dancing Nancies", Live at Luther College (1999)
Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers. The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. I pray while I am engaged at my work in the laboratory.
Louis Pasteur— As quoted in The Literary Digest (18 October 1902)
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
george santayana— Ch. 3 (Vol. V, Reason in Science)
The going's rough, and so we need the laugh of bright incisors, molars of goodwill. Our times are still not safe and sane enough for faces to show ordinary sorrow.
wisława szymborska— "Smiles" (A Large Number (1976))
Tell people that war is an evil, and they will laugh; for who does not know it? Tell them that patriotism is an evil, and most of them will agree, but with a reservation. "Yes," they will say, "wrong patriotism is an evil; but there is another kind, the kind we hold." But just what this good patriotism is, no one explains.
leo tolstoy— Patriotism, or Peace? (1896), translated by Nathan Haskell DoleVariant:I have already several times expressed the thought that in our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of the ills from which mankind is suffering, and that, consequently, this feeling – should not be cultivated, as is now being done, but should, on the contrary, be suppressed and eradicated by all means available to rational men. Yet, strange to say – though it is undeniable that the universal armaments and destructive wars which are ruining the peoples result from that one feeling – all my arguments showing the backwardness, anachronism, and harmfulness of patriotism have been met, and are still met, either by silence, by intentional misinterpretation, or by a strange unvarying reply to the effect that only bad patriotism (Jingoism or Chauvinism) is evil, but that real good patriotism is a very elevated moral feeling, to condemn which is not only irrational but wicked.
What this real, good patriotism consists in, we are never told; or, if anything is said about it, instead of explanation we get declamatory, inflated phrases, or, finally, some other conception is substituted for patriotism – something which has nothing in common with the patriotism we all know, and from the results of which we all suffer so severely.Patriotism and Government (1900)
These are old fond paradoxes to make fools laugh i' the alehouse.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1603), Act II, scene 1, line 139
I think that the tendency for most people is to fall back on a comic interpretation of things because things are so sad, so terrible. If you didn't laugh you'd kill yourself. But the truth of the matter is that existence in general is very very tragic, very very sad, very brutal and very unhappy.
— Woody Allen, interview in "Interview with Woody Allen: 'Nothing Pleases Me More than Being Thought of as a European Filmmaker'" by Helene Zuber, in Der Spiegel (20 June 2005)
O, you shall see him laugh till his face be like a wet cloak ill laid up.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II (c. 1597-99), Act V, scene 1, line 88
Less at thine own things laugh ; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance, Make not thy sport abuses: for the fly That feeds on dung is colored thereby.
George Herbert— George Herbert, The Temple (1633), Church Porch, Stanza 39.
Never laugh at live dragons.
— J. R. R. Tolkien in The Hobbit
I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me, If my bark sinks, 'tis to another sea.
william ellery channing— William Ellery Channing, A Poet's Hope, Stanza 13
If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And, if I can persuade you to laugh at a particular point that I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge it as true .
— John Cleese, as quoted in What Winners Do to Win! : The 7 Minutes a Day That Can Change Your Life (2003) by Nicki Joy, p. 113
Joke's on me... hurts when I laugh... hurts...
— Who: Atton Rand
— Note: In the cut ending of the game, the character dies after hours of torture at the hands of Darth Sion. In the released version of the game, he survives (evident in Darth Traya's prophecy).
"Is someone you know anorexic? A good joke would be to tell them that they're fat. They'll laugh because anorexic people aren't fat. HAHAH"
— Pranks to try on people in the hospital!
Eye Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies, And catch the Manners living as they rise. laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man. See Milton 580:93.
Alexander Pope— 1733 An Essay on Man, epistle1, l.13-16.
Eye nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners, living as they rise; laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1733-34), Epistle I, line 13.
