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«At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good »
«I'm sure everyone in this room has been told a joke about that subject. I have many times and I've laughed, even though they are horrifying and shocking. . . . I think there's no boundary at all, whether it's that subject or another.»
«If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will say Behold a philosopher arisen among us! or How came you by that brow of scorn? But do you cherish no scorn, but hold to those things which seem to you the best, as one set by God in that place. Remember too, that if you abide in those ways, those who first mocked you, the same shall afterwards reverence you; but if you yield to them, you will be laughed at twice as much as before.»
«Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.»
«All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.»
Author: Jack Kerouac (Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: laughed, nightmare
«Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.»
«It's very funny, and we really laughed a lot while we were making it and I could always tell how happy the director was by how hard he laughed behind the monitor.»
«But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.»
«He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.»
«I laughed him out of patience; and that nightI laughed him into patience: and next morn,Ere the ninth hour, I drunk him to his bed.»