One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.


Elbert Hubbard

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God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars. -Elbert Hubbard.
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Tragedy and comedy are but two aspects of what is real, and whether we see the tragic or the humor...
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Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
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We can say we are positively certified and can meet financial obligations for the next two years. Th...
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Life is a tragedy without comedy, but the comedy is nothing but the truth and reality only.
ANUJ SOMANY
Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the m...
ALVAR AALTO
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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The same distinction marks off Tragedy from Comedy; for Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tr...
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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.
CAROL BURNETT
But if two's company, three's a crowd - and that demands the omniscient point of view.
ARTHUR HERZOG
Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.
HORACE WALPOLE
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
UNKNOWN
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
JEAN DE LA BRUYèRE
A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot
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Comedy is tragedy - plus time.
CAROL BURNETT
Comedy is tragedy plus time.
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Comedy is tragedy - plus time
CAROL BURNETT
Tragedy is actually untimely comedy
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There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.
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Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.
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The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
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EVE BELISLE
For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.
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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.
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Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether t...
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The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, wh...
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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.
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Ryan Hubbard also made a big defensive play for us. We had a little bit of blown pass coverage and H...
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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
SHOLOM ALEICHEM
We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.
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Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may or...
ARTHUR SMITH
There are three things that are important for a film. Number one is story, number two is story, numb...
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The really interesting people we meet in our lives are mixed with comedy and tragedy,
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The only difference between a comedy and a tragedy is at which point the story ends.
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JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
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There's more truth in comedy than in tragedy.
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The gods we ourselves have created ruled us for centuries! What a great comedy! And what a great tra...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
Our demands for the release of these two people are not negotiable.
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There is nothing in human affairs that is a true subject for ridicule. Beneath comedy lies the ferme...
GABRIEL CHEVALLIER
Teams can come in and play two or three games at excellent sites.
GARY LARKINS
In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.
CHRISTOPHER FRY
We let one slip away. We competed very well but the last two or three points we couldn't get the pla...
TONY PHELPS
We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.
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We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.
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He can play the one, two or three, and we've talked about the four or five, ... You can find a bunch...
CARROLL DAWSON
We had our chance. We were up by two games with three to play ? that's all you can ask for.
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Three can keep a secret, if two are dead.
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Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spect...
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We have coaches here every night, but the swimmers are only required to be here three times a week.
JENNE CASTELLINI
Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
JEAN RACINE
One of the things that you do to try to slow down a scorer like Hubbard is go and attack him and mak...
GARY HALL
Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.
ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY
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DALE HARPENAU
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
HORACE WALPOLE
I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.
BILLY JOEL
The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
HORACE WALPOLE
One for sorrow; two for mirth; three for a wedding; four for a birth.
FRENCH PROVERB
You can choose one or two or three or none.
BOB HOFFMAN
A comedy that has been divide in two can never be Restored
JUN MOCHIZUKI
Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right...
PETER SHAFFER
Parsi theater was known for melodrama.
IRRFAN KHAN
Remember this rule forever!


Two or three... play... and in the end one die.
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What after all Is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean
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A few people have ventured to imitate Shakespeare's tragedy. But no audacious spirit has dreamed or ...
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One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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I had three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society
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The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the...
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We aren't overrated, we are misconstrued. We've got three big players and two wings but only one gua...
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I consider this one of the three best conferences in the nation, but I feel we can play with anybody...
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
ERMA BOMBECK
Baths are my favorite thing. I can have two, three a day.
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Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.
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The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
ELBERT HUBBARD
If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
ELBERT HUBBARD
Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
ELBERT HUBBARD
All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the f...
ELBERT HUBBARD
Art is not a thing; it is a way.
ELBERT HUBBARD
Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks thin...
ELBERT HUBBARD
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
ELBERT HUBBARD
Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously
ELBERT HUBBARD
Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death
ELBERT HUBBARD