Laugh and the world laughs with you; Weep and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, but has trouble enough of its own.
Old age doth in sharp pains abound;We are belabored by the gout,Our blindness is a dark profound,Our deafness each one laughs about.Then reason's light with falling rayDoth but a trembling flicker cast.Honor to age, ye children pay!Alas! my fifty years are past! - Pierre-Jean de Béranger
He who laughs most, learns best - John Cleese
It was a slow fall, through warm experiences and good laughs. It didn't even feel like love until I got to the end. Even then, it was not the hard surface of rock, but the scorching embrace of more. - Hubert Martin
Go ragged then, but pride makes a poor covers; once one man laughs you're naked. - Geraldine Harris
The word genius was whispered into my ear the first things I ever Heard while I was still mewling in my crib, laughs Orson (Welles), so it never occured to me that I wasn't until middle age - Barbara Leaming
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
When God laughs at the soul and the soul laughs back at God, the persons of the Trinity are begotten. When the Father laughs at the Son and the Son laughs back at the Father, that laughter gives pleasure, that pleasure gives joy, that joy gives love, and that love is the Holy Spirit. - Meister Eckhart
She has a serene, glowing disposition. She looks at you and the rest of the world through the eyes of a lynx and is always mysterious, possibly because she always harbours those hidden laughs just beneath her lips. She’s always ready to laugh. - C. JoyBell C.
When the poor give to the rich, the devil laughs. - Benvenuto Cellini
He who laughs, lasts! - Mary Pettibone Poole
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. - William Hazlitt
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. - Samuel Butler
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Time laughs in the distance as I cling to the belief memories of you will fade. - Raine Cooper
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it. - George Gordon Byron
Live happy and enjoy your journey. Life is too short to not enjoy the ride ! Perspective really matters. Worry never solves any problems. Have belly laughs and chuckles instead - Angie karan
A child playing with its father screams louder, laughs harder, jumps more eagerly, puts more faith in everything. - Lydia Netzer
The best thing about this journey is I know I have it in me to keep going. Battle-tested, you know? Now, my heart laughs at the word 'quit'. - Ace Antonio Hall
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. - Henry David Thoreau
Every time one laughs a nail is removed from one's coffin. - Honduran Proverb
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much. - Jean Paul Richter
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. - Anthony Burgess
Satan dreads nothing but prayer. His one concern is to keep the saints from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, he mocks our wisdom, but he trembles when we pray. - Samuel Chadwick
The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her, and seeing such things never before seen his admirers pity their unborn grandchildren who will never see them. - Eduardo Galeano
He who laughs last ... just didn't get the joke. - Carroll Bryant
She laughs an honest laugh... one that puts the fakes on edge and makes them dream of being better. - C. JoyBell C.
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. - Will Rogers
The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it...try to fake three laughs in an hour -- ha ha ha ha ha -- they'll take you away, man. You can't. - Lenny Bruce
The cat that laughs is crazy. Man who does not laugh is below... (Le chat qui rit est un fou. - Homme qui ne rit est dessous...) - Charles de Leusse
The bubbly play of wit, the chesty laughs, the resonant voices of men when glass in hand they shut the grey world outside and prod their brains with the fun and folly of an accelerated pulse. - Jack London
He who laughs last didn't get it.
He is not laughed at who laughs at himself first. - Thomas Fuller
Life kisses our faces every morning. Yet, between morning and evening, she laughs at our sorrows. - Kahlil Gibran
Faith slips - and laughs, and rallies - Emily Dickinson
Laugh and the world laughs with you.Fart and you're on your own. - Peter James West
He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news. - Bertolt Brecht
In this life he laughs longest who laughs last. - John Masefield
Friendship develops over tears, times, laughs and lunch. - Toni Sorenson
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Any woman who laughs as dope as she does won't ever have trouble finding men. - Junot Díaz
I try not to make plans. God always laughs at your plans. I’m going to keep the door open, and keep the page blank, and see what gets painted upon it. - Tom Hiddleston