Did you ever observe that immoderate laughter always ends in a sigh?
—Leigh Hunt
Showing posts with label laughter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label laughter. Show all posts
Thursday, September 12, 2019
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Wednesday, June 08, 2016
Post #2093
Laughing is peculiar to man, but all men do not laugh for the same reason. There is the attic salt which springs from the charm in the words, from the flash of wit, from the spirited and brilliant sally. There is the low joke which arises from scurrility and idle conceit.
—Carlo Goldoni
—Carlo Goldoni
Wednesday, December 09, 2015
Post #1963
It is a good thing to laugh, at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness. Beasts can weep when they suffer, but they cannot laugh.
—John Dryden
Monday, March 23, 2015
Post #1776
Man is the only animal with the powers of laughter, a privilege which was not bestowed on him for nothing. Let us then laugh while we may, no matter how broad the laugh may be, and despite of what the poet says about "the loud laugh that speaks the vacant mind." The mind should occasionally be vacant, as the land should lie fallow, and for precisely the same reason.
—Egerton Smith
—Egerton Smith
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
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