Hasten to laugh at everything lest you be obliged to weep.
Related:
- Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep,
and you weep... - Je me presse de rire de tout, de peur d'etre oblige de'en pleurer.
(I make myself laugh at everything, in case I should... - Men bound in fellowship first weep and lament,
But afterward the laugh.
After great struggles they succeed in meeting... - Don't be too sweet lest you be eaten up; don't be too bitter lest you be
spewed out.
Jewish... - If you can't laugh at yourself,
I'll laugh at you... - And if I laugh at any mortal thing,
'T is that I may not weep.
Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto iv, Stanza... - Who but must laugh, if such a man there be?
Who would not weep,
if Atticus were he? -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)... - Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep,
too grave to laugh, and too self-ful to seek other... - Squint as you approach me,
lest you be blinded by my beauty...
From the same category:
- Perestroika: could it happen here?
- Tom... - Stay the
curse... - Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance,
but to do what lies clearly at hand. -- Thomas... - What is aristocracy? A corporation of the best, of the bravest.
Thomas Carlyle (1795... - Giant salmon gulps down 12
swimmers...
