“What’s the price of life?” Donald countered bitterly.
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Stand on Zanzibar (1968)
“There have always been those who, though they see tragedy as the outcome of freedom, will nevertheless judge that tragedy is not too high a price to pay.”
Herodotus: History (p. 45)
Classics Revisited (1968)
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Stand on Zanzibar (1968)
Ronald Reagan
(1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985), First Inaugural address (1981)
Context: If we look to the answer as to why for so many years we achieved so much, prospered as no other people on earth, it was because here in this land we unleashed the energy and individual genius of man to a greater extent than has ever been done before. Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on earth. The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay the price.
“No price is too high to pay for a good laugh.”
Roscoe Arbuckle
(1887–1933) American silent film actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter
The Cost of a Laugh, Motion Picture Magazine, March 1918. http://archive.org/stream/motionpicturemag152moti#page/n75/mode/2up
“Life is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.”
Horace Walpole
(1717–1797) English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician
Letter to Anne, Countess of Ossory, (16 August 1776)
A favourite saying of Walpole's, it is repeated in other of his letters, and might be derived from a similar statement attributed to Jean de La Bruyère, though unsourced: "Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think". An earlier form occurs in another published letter:
I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel — a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.
Letter to Sir Horace Mann (31 December 1769)
Variant: The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel.
“Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think.”
Margaret Cho
(1968) American stand-up comedian
Source: I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight
“Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.”
Jean Racine
(1639–1699) French dramatist
“Life is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think.”
Molière
(1622–1673) French playwright and actor