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«The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.»
Author: Henri Bergson (Philosopher) | About: Vanity | Keywords: laughable
«The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals»
Author: James Thurber (Writer) | About: Dogs, Mankind | Keywords: demonstrable, laughable, The Dog
«Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.»
«The man of understanding finds everything laughable»
«Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, or opposites at all without opposites»
Author: Plato (Philosopher) | Keywords: laughable, opposites
«Most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Politics | Keywords: laughable, schemes
«No one is laughable who laughs at himself.»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: laughable
«I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.»