“The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.”
George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
Source: Dialogues in Limbo (1926), Ch. 3, P. 57
“No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.”
Bk. I, ch. 4.
1830s, Sartor Resartus (1833–1834)
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“The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.”
Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German poet, playwright, theatre director
"To Those Born Later", part of the Svendborg Poems (1939)
quoted in Poems, 1913-1956, p. 318
Variation: He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
German: Wer jetzt noch lacht, hat die neuesten Nachrichten noch nicht gehört.
Poems, 1913-1956 (1976)
“A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable.”
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
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1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
Context: Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them. A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable.
“A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.”
Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011) British-American actress
“A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.”
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896–1953) American novelist
Bert Williams (1874–1922) American comedian and actor
Bert Williams, The comic side of trouble, January 1918, American Magazine 85, 33-34, 58-60. Quoted in From traveling show to vaudeville: theatrical spectacle in America, 1830-1910, 2003, Robert M. Lewis, JHU Press, ISBN 0801870879.
Hermann Hesse (1877–1962) German writer
Siddhartha (1922)
Context: Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity. When the Illustrious Buddha taught about the world, he had to divide it into Samsara and Nirvana, illusion and truth, into suffering and salvation. One cannot do otherwise, there is no other method for those who teach. But the world itself, being in and around us, is never one-sided. Never is a man or a deed wholly Samsara or wholly Nirvana; never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner. This only seems so because we suffer the illusion that time is something real.
“A man who laughs will never be dangerous.”
Laurence Sterne book A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
The Passport, Versailles.
Original: (fr) Un homme qui rit, said the duke, ne sera jamais dangereux.
Source: A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768)