“This day showed us that we are all completely voyeurs greedy for thrilling entertainment no matter if this is real or not.”
Referring to the non-stop television airing of the September 11, 2001 attacks. http://tv.ign.com/articles/712/712604p1.html.
2000s
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“The most completely wasted of all days is that in which we have not laughed.”
La plus perdue de toutes les journées est celle où l'on n'a pas ri.
Maximes et pensées (1805)
Variant translations:
The days most wasted are those during which we have not laughed.
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
While many such expressions have become widely attributed to Charlie Chaplin and a few others, research done for "A Day Without Laughter is a Day Wasted" at Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/07/16/laughter-day/ indicate that such expressions date back to that of Chamfort, published in "Historique, Politique et Litteraire, Maximes détachées extraites des manuscrits de Champfort" Mercure Français (18 July 1795), p. 351 http://books.google.com/books?id=N3tBAAAAcAAJ&q=%22pas+ri%22#v=snippet&q=%22pas%20ri%22&f=false Translations of this into English have been found as early as one in "Laughing" in Flowers of Literature (1803) by F. Prevost and F. Blagdon:
: I admire the man who exclaimed, “I have lost a day!” because he had neglected to do any good in the course of it; but another has observed that “the most lost of all days, is that in which we have not laughed;” and, I must confess, that I feel myself greatly of his opinion.
