I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.
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I quickly laugh at everything, for fear of having to cry.
PIERRE DE BEAUMARCHAIS I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to
weep.
[Fr., Je me hate de me moquer...
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.
PIERRE DE BEAUMARCHAIS I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.
PIERRE BEAUMARCHAIS I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.
P.A. CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS I hasten to laugh at everything for fear of being obliged to weep at it.
PIERRE DE BEAUMARCHAIS I am quick to laugh at everything, so as not to have to cry
P.A. CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE “In ocean of tears, the heart of stone sinks. (Dans l'océan de larmes, - Le coeur de pierre donc ...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE A heart of stone is a sculpture? (Un cœur de pierre - Est une sculpture ?)
CHARLES DE LEUSSE I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.
CARLENE CARTER We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we
laugh at all.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE ... sometimes in life, you either laugh or you cry. And I prefer to laugh.
JIM STOVALL Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
PIERRE DE BEAUMARCHAIS Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be ...
PIERRE DE BEAUMARCHAIS Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.
PIERRE DE BEAUMARCHAIS It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
PIERRE DE BEAUMARCHAIS Drinking, when we are not thirsty and making love all year round, madam; that is all there is to dis...
PIERRE DE BEAUMARCHAIS I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you ...
SAM KINISON If you are thinking whether to cry or laugh, cry.
NIKOLA IVANOVSKI Louise de Keroualle, being a Frenchwoman from the French court, was feared by most Englishmen for ho...
SUSAN HOLLOWAY SCOTT Laugh and the whole world will laugh with you,
Cry and you will cry alone!
MERYY LINAY I cry at everything, even the length of the queue at Sainsbury's.
ARABELLA WEIR Love is what makes you want to cry and laugh at the same time.
VALERIE ROSE STERRETT At some point, I had to start laughing, because I was all wrung out from crying.
JULIE METZ Acting is not very hard. The most important things are to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to cry...
GLENDA JACKSON You laugh at love... but love will make you cry.
- Yasu
AI YAZAWA Why cry for someone when you can laugh next to someone else?
ANONYMOUS wasting what little breath he did have laughing at himself. Because sometimes, that’s all you coul...
KELLEY ARMSTRONG I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.
SAM ROCKWELL Love me or Hate me, Cry for me or Laugh at me.
It doesn't matter, you're still thinking about me.
PETER ALMOJUELA CHRISTENSEN Strong men cry. Stronger men cry or laugh with them.
BRENT M. JONES I make myself laugh at everything, in case I should have to weep
P.A. CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS I laugh, I love, I hope, I try, I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too...
COLIN RAYE Oh, Mona, we're all damned fools! Some of us just have more fun with it than others. Loosen up, dear...
ARMISTEAD MAUPIN It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
PIERRE BEAUMARCHAIS If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.
PIERRE BEAUMARCHAIS Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be ...
PIERRE BEAUMARCHAIS Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to dist...
PIERRE BEAUMARCHAIS As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am ...
PIERRE BEAUMARCHAIS Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.
PIERRE BEAUMARCHAIS I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I durst not laugh, for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.
JACK HANDY It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.
JACK HANDEY At their core, women fear that men will kill them. At their core, men fear that women will laugh at ...
GAVIN DE BECKER Be positive and laugh at everything.
ALEXANDRA ROACH IT'S THE EXPRESSION ON THEIR LITTLE FACES I LIKE, said the Hogfather.
"You mean sort of fear a...
TERRY PRATCHETT I didn't steal her from you, I just made her laugh twice as many times as you made her cry.
SAMUEL H. LOWE When was the last time you had a good belly-shaking-tear-jerking-snot-producing laugh?
That lon...
OSAYI EMOKPAE LASISI Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live.
JOYCE RACHELLE The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I...
MARJORIE PAY HINCKLEY I laugh because I must not cry. That is all. That is all.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me ...
JOEY LAUREN ADAMS Don't you dare cry. If you do, then I shall, and I refuse to allow it.
PATRICIA RYAN I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of succe...
MICHAEL BUBLE I always knew I would look back at the times I'd cried and laugh, but I never knew that I'd look bac...
SHAUN PROWDZIK I was very happy. I didn't know what to do, cry or laugh. It was a shock.
BARBARA WALKER A mirror can do something better for you which maybe your best friend can’t. Cry and it will cry w...
VIKRANT PARSAI People cry and laugh on silliest, shallowest things
MJ CHRISTINE No, my young apprentice. You said the exact right thing. Again. I'm just laughing at life."
"Wh...
P.C. CAST Those who laugh with you when you laugh are acquaintances, those who cry with you when you cry are c...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO It is easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.
SOURCE UNKNOWN It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh
VIVIEN LEIGH In every cry of every man,In every infant's cry of fear,In every voice, in every ban,The mind-forged...
WILLIAM BLAKE My next thirty years I’m gonna settle all the scores,Cry a little less, laugh a little more.Find a...
TIM MCGRAW you look at me and cry
everything hurts
i hold you and whisper
but everything c...
RUPI KAUR Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
BERTOLT BRECHT Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.
LEWIS CARROLL Make em laugh; make em cry; make em wait.
CHARLES READE For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
GEORGES ROUAULT We sort of look at our years at 'Letterman' as comedy grad school. I don't mind seeing jokes and hea...
CARTER BAYS It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Becaus...
TAYLOR SWIFT Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
MARY CATHERINE BATESON I just always have to cry out a breakup, and then I can make peace with it pretty quickly.
BRITTANY MURPHY Stars aren’t supposed to cry. They’re supposed to laugh. (Zarek)
How can I laugh when I hav...
SHERRILYN KENYON You either laugh or you cry. The crying comes later.
JAN PINNEY We seem to live in a world where you have to walk around grinning like a loon. I can’t understand ...
KARL PILKINGTON Make 'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait.
CHARLES READE I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having...
RACHEL NICHOLS Even though my work is whimsical. I have a very serious job. I cry more than I laugh.
RICHARD SIMMONS Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emoti...
MARY PICKFORD Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emoti...
MARY PICKFORD Laugh. Laugh as much as you can. Laugh until you cry. Cry until you laugh. Keep doing it even if peo...
ELLEN DEGENERES I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.
BILLY JOEL friends are the persons who make you laugh when you cry
SHANTHIPRIYA I'd rather laugh in a tent than cry in a palace.
JAMES ENNS Yet the best determining factor of how comfortable we are with ourselves, is our ability to laugh at...
WES ADAMSON It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alon...
JIM BUTCHER Either the PMO has to accede to Pierre Pettigrew -- or Pierre Pettigrew has to resign.
MONTE SOLBERG Laugh, cry, and discover your fears so you can be strong from the hurt, happy from the pain, and kno...
LAURA KESSLER It's such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I've made people cry or want to slit their wr...
JOAN ALLEN Stay with me. I’ll show you things that’ll make you laugh in delight, scream in passion, cry for...
NALINI SINGH Please live. Talk, think, act. And sometimes listen to the music... Look at paintings and at times b...
KOUSHUN TAKAMI I wish to cry. Yet, I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on the t...
SYLVIA PLATH Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have th...
CONFUCIUS Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have th...
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[Fr., Calumniez, calumniez; ...
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weep.
[Fr., Je me hate de me moquer...
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[Fr., Ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d'etre dit, on le ch...
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS Everything ends with songs.
[Fr., Tout finit par des chansons.]
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS What silly people wits are!
[Lat., Que les gens d'esprit sont betes.]
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PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in ...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistan...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of th...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN The history of the kingdom of God is, directly, one of a reunion. The total divine milieu is formed ...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace mar...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN So we follow our wandering paths, and the very darkness acts as our guide and our doubts serve to re...
JEAN-PIERRE DE CAUSSADE The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own s...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter. No othe...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Above all, trust in the slow work of God.
We are quite naturally impatient in everything
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PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual w...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it ...
MICHEL DE SAINT-PIERRE Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous.
PIERRE SIMON DE LAPLACE And in the years he reigned; through all the country wide,
There was no cause for weeping, save wh...
PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER Old age doth in sharp pains abound;
We are belabored by the gout,
Our blindness is a dark prof...
PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER I see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love.
PIERRE CHODERLOS DE LACLOS The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher posses...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe th...
PIERRE CHODERLOS DE LACLOS Will you, then, never grow weary of being unjust?
PIERRE CHODERLOS DE LACLOS Research is the highest form of adoration
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN There is no woman in the world who does not abuse the power she has been able to acquire
PIERRE CHODERLOS DE LACLOS Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives ...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remain...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Christ has conquered death, not only by suppressing its evil effects, but by reversing its sting. By...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-a...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever newborn; you who, by co...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN It was there, in particular, that I confirmed the truth that love, which we cry up as the source of ...
PIERRE CHODERLOS DE LACLOS When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal...
PIERRE CHODERLOS DE LACLOS It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it an...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each ...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN The problem of evil, that is to say the reconciling of our failures, even the purely physical ones, ...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that h...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN One mustn't close one's eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lo...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN