A paltry, humbug jest; those who have the least wit make them best
WILLIAM COMBE Therefore they shall laugh little and weep much as a recompense for what they earned.
QURAN Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall re...
BIBLE Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
NICHOLAS SPARKS "With this same key
Shakespeare unlocked his heart," once more!
Did Shakespeare? If so, the l...
ROBERT BROWNING Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least:
For wit is news only to ignorance.
Lesse at th...
GEORGE HERBERT Woman! The peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch, and the...
HELEN ROWLAND Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the ...
HELEN ROWLAND He is a heavy eater of beef. Methinks it doth harm to his wit.
Wm Shakespeare in Twelfth Night.
WM SHAKESPEARE It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools
SPANISH PROVERB The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Laugh till you weep. Weep till there’s nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it’...
FREDERICK BUECHNER A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO When thou dost tell another's jest, therein
Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need;
Pick o...
GEORGE HERBERT Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to...
KHALIL GIBRAN Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to...
KAHLIL GIBRAN "We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But fate, as Merlin always taught us, is inexorable. Life is a jest of the Gods, Merlin liked to cla...
BERNARD CORNWELL O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yes, I'm shallow, I don't mind admitting it. Perhaps I should admit that there's no end to the depth...
FRANNY BILLINGSLEY He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON William Shakespeare has had an impact on the artistic imagination, on language, literature and all t...
PETER SELLEY She taught us how to love limitlessly ... how to laugh and weep and give innumerable heartfelt hugs....
DEBORAH HAZEN It is God's giving if we laugh or weep
SOPHOCLES I would rather have my people laugh at my economies than weep for my extravagance
OSCAR II OF SWEDEN I hate ingratitude more in a man
than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
or any taint...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time. Shakespear...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.
ROBERT JORDAN I make myself laugh at everything, in case I should have to weep
P.A. CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS A justice with grave justices shall sit;
He praise their wisdom, they admire his wit.
JOHN GAY He made us feel we were present at a feast of wit, fed by his good sense, and thrilled to be, for th...
BEVERLY FRANKEL FIELDS And he shall cut it into his pieces, with his head and his fat: and the priest shall lay them in ord...
BIBLE And when he comes to know of any of Our communications, he takes it for a jest; these it is that sha...
QURAN Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE His wit invites you by his looks to come,
But when you knock, it never is at home.
WILLIAM COWPER William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
MARC NORMAN Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned? / It is neither ...
BIBLE A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
HORACE Voltaire and Shakespeare! He was all
The other feigned to be.
The flippant Frenchman speaks: ...
MATTHIAS CLAUDIUS But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men.
KATHY ACKER It was more exacting than Shakespeare. Every stammer was scripted.
JAMES FOLEY Wit is more often a shield than a lance.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Oh, laugh or mourn with me the rueful jest, / A cassocked huntsman and a fiddling priest!
WILLIAM COWPER Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best disc...
PLUTARCH Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD I have more zeal than wit.
ALEXANDER POPE The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time a...
CUTHBERT SOUP Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So fair and foul a day I have not seen.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just...
BILL BRYSON Well, the thing that I suppose is closest to my heart is Shakespeare. I really am a nerd about Shake...
TOM HIDDLESTON In the works of JOSEPH DEVLIN Praises reap not! Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not!
WILLIAM BLAKE Those who savour, enjoy more flavour.
ADAM BAILLIE Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were a cause indeed to...
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were a cause indeed ...
WILLIAM C. BRYANT Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for ...
AIDEN WILSON TOZER Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for ...
AIDEN TOZER Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for ...
AIDEN WILSON TOZER Wit is far more often a shield than a lance
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
WILLIAM PENN Less judgment than wit, is more sail than ballast.
WILLIAM PENN Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast
WILLIAM PENN Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to w...
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Weep not that the world changes--did it keep
A stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to w...
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to we...
WILLIAM C. BRYANT A picture says more than a thousands words, but which words are these?
TAEKE DE JONG When Shakespeare is charges with debts to his authors, Landor
replies, "Yet he was more original th...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Conceit contributes more to conversation than wit.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCALD She hath more hair than wit, and more faults than hairs, and more wealth than faults.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow it...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Laugh and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring off his head, and burn it on the altar; and ...
BIBLE Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhaust...
GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
GEORGE HERBERT I hasten to laugh at everything for fear of being obliged to weep at it.
PIERRE DE BEAUMARCHAIS never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he had Cassius note, “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in...
JOHN GREEN When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;
Wh...
WILLIAM BLAKE When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the...
WILLIAM BLAKE William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN Better lose a jest than a friend
THOMAS FULLER There's many a man has more hair than wit.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ay me! For aught that I could every read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But a comedian is naked. His only weapon was his wit.
SIDNEY SHELDON Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
JEAN GIRAUDOUX The hair that covers the wit is more than the wit, for the
greater hides the less.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassiu...
JOHN GREEN It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety."
Antony and Cleopatra (II.ii) ~Wi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Laugh and the world laughs with you,
Weep, and you weep alone;
For this brave old earth must...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
DENIS DIDEROT