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Laugh till you weep. Weep till there’s nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it’s all one.


Frederick Buechner

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ELLA WHEELER WILCOX If you want to make people weep, you must weep yourself. If you want to make people laugh, your face...
GIOVANNI JACOPO CASANOVA We Batchelors laugh and shew our teeth, but you married men laugh till your hearts ake.
GEORGE HERBERT 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 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 Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE 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 But fate, as Merlin always taught us, is inexorable. Life is a jest of the Gods, Merlin liked to cla...
BERNARD CORNWELL Praises reap not! Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not!
WILLIAM BLAKE It is God's giving if we laugh or weep
SOPHOCLES And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.
LORD BYRON And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep
LORD BYRON I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
DENIS DIDEROT I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
BETTE DAVIS Laugh till you're exhausted.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Laugh and the world laughs with you,
Weep, and you weep alone;
For this brave old earth must...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understa...
BARUCH SPINOZA I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understa...
BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA I would rather have my people laugh at my economies than weep for my extravagance
OSCAR II OF SWEDEN It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools
SPANISH PROVERB His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I hope and hoping feeds my pain
I weep and weeping feeds my failing heart
I laugh but the lau...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
ANNA BARBAULD We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD April, April, Laugh thy girlish laughter, Then, the moment after, Weep thy girlish tears...
SIR WILLIAM WATSON (2) ...the secret to writing is to get your own pain - shout it out till it hurts your throat - weep it ...
JOHN GEDDES 'April, April, laugh thy girlish laughter, and the moment after, Weep thy girlish tears, April.'
ANGUS WILSON Weeping is not the same thing as crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when it's over, you f...
SARAH OCKLER Therefore they shall laugh little and weep much as a recompense for what they earned.
QURAN Live today like it is your last day, Love with all your heart and soul, and Laugh till your belly ac...
MARIE KATRA Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
GOLDA MEIR Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
GOLDA MEIR Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
ELINOR BURKETT Why do we weep once we know that everything will be alright? We weep because the only way everything...
ADAM LEVIN I drive around the streets
an inch away from weeping,
ashamed of my sentimentality and
CHARLES BUKOWSKI She taught us how to love limitlessly ... how to laugh and weep and give innumerable heartfelt hugs....
DEBORAH HAZEN When you weep silently in the dark with nobody to shoulder your tears, you only find comfort in slee...
MARCO OSCAR OZ A hundred thousand welcomes. I could weep / And I could laugh, I am light and heavy. / Welcome.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either. -Golda Mei...
GOLDA MEIR Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he find...
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH A man met a lad weeping. "What do you weep for?" he asked. "I am weeping for my sins," said the lad...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 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 The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else anoth...
SAMUEL BECKETT The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else anoth...
SAMUEL BECKETT Go, go, good countrymen, and for this fault Assemble all the poor men of your sort; Draw them ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Good friends laugh at you, laugh with you, but never laugh behind your back.
SARU SINGHAL Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
GOLDA MEIR I learned a long time ago that you have to be able to laugh no matter what. Otherwise you start weep...
CATHERINE JONES PAYNE You laugh at me because I'm different. I laugh at you because your all the same
ABDULLAH AHMAD 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 Don't Wait Till You're At The End Of Your Rope! Before You Take Action In Your Life!
DR.'S RICK AND SUSANN CRAWFORD You laugh at me becuse I am different. I laugh at you becuse your all the same.
JONATHAN DAVIS 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 You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a ...
O. HENRY PORTER You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a ...
HENRY PORTER Eat till you're full. Play anytime you want. Sleep as much as you like. Cry. Get angry. Laugh. Live....
KAZUYA MINEKURA I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll w...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am tired of tears and laughter,/ And men that laugh and weep;/ Of what may come hereafter/ For men...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations ...
JOYCE CARY I'll be here waiting, till there's nothing left to wait for.
MONIKA JOANNA ORAWIEC You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed wi...
THOMAS TRAHERNE You will meet a lot of people in your life; some laugh with you, others will laugh at you; some will...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR They civilize what's pretty By puttin' up a city Where nothin' that's Pretty can grow.... They civil...
ALAN JAY LERNER If you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that t...
C.S. LEWIS 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 ...
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AVIJEET DAS Learne weeping, and thou shalt laugh gayning.
GEORGE HERBERT He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
OSCAR WILDE Don't cry over the shots you've missed; weep over the ones you've not taken at all. The bitterest re...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR And weep the more, because I weep in vain.
THOMAS GRAY Don't be careless about yourselves--on the other hand not too careful. Live well but do not flaunt i...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The one who loves you will make you weep.
ARGENTINE PROVERB Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS You all laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.
JOHN DAVIS It may take us years and years to find our true calling in our life. But one fine day, we eventually...
AVIJEET DAS The gods want you to laugh and above all they want you to laugh at them.
MARTY RUBIN You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.
JONATHAN DAVIS You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.
JONATHAN DAVIS Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts o...
HUANG PO If you can't laugh at your own problems, call me and I'll laugh at them.
ANONYMOUS Beware of laugh at and laugh with; the only people who laugh at you are the ones who pretend to laug...
VIKRANT PARSAI He didn't slam the door, didn't rage, didn't weep, he simply left.
MELISSA MARR Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
LEWIS CARROLL Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
LEWIS CARROLL Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Everything stinks till it’s finished.
DR. SEUSS Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh,...
HERMANN HESSE Laugh not once at one's misfortune for one will laugh twice as much at you later.
KAZI SHAMS wasting what little breath he did have laughing at himself. Because sometimes, that’s all you coul...
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FREDERICK REINES It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm,...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advan...
FREDERICK SANGER Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any p...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other p...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS One and God make a majority.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this bo...
FREDERICK WEISEL These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity.
FREDERICK LEBOYER Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful.
FREDERICK SODDY America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the fu...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some exte...
FREDERICK SODDY I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and th...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowl...
FREDERICK SANGER A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a gre...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once h...
FREDERICK SEITZ I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted
FREDERICK DOUGLASS In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one clas...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS But when ye come, and all the flowers are dying,
If I am dead, as dead I well may be,
You'...
FREDERICK WEATHERLY The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost bey...
FREDERICK SODDY Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
FREDERICK WILCOX We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now ...
FREDERICK TILNEY The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny.
FREDERICK SPEAKMAN There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is not to be true to the best we k...
FREDERICK FARRAR Man’s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever h...
FREDERICK BAILES You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the...
FREDERICK WISEMAN The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any peop...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect
FREDERICK SAUNDERS People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not s...
FREDERICK FARRAR Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars.
FREDERICK LANGBRIDGE