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
Man alone is born crying, lives complaining,
and dies disappointed.
?William Temple
I hasten to laugh at everything for
fear of being obliged to weep at it.
?Pierre de Beaumarchais
Thou hast done a deed whereat
valour will weep.
?William Shakespeare
Those who don't know how to weep
with their whole heart,
don't know how to laugh either.
?Golda Meir
Weep not that the world changes --
did it keep a stable, changeless state,
it were a cause indeed to weep.
?William C. Bryant
Two aged men, that had been foes for life,
Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears
They washed away the memory of their strife;
Then wept again the loss of all those years.
?Frederick Tennyson
The truth is, laughter always sounds
more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows
in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic.
Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled,
or surrendered to with humiliation.
?Anne Rice
We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone,
why then should we pray alone?
?Anna Letitia Barbauld
