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  1. ...

    13: OAF!

    me: I'm not an oaf! you take that back!

    13 *can't talk for laughing*

    me: how very dare

    13 *gasping between laughs*: i was trying to say opoe, but my lip caught on my braces!

    Reader, I almost had to pull the car over.

    🤣🤣🤣

    2/2

    #laughter
    #teenager
    #teen
    #7thGraderLife
    #ADHD
    #DAVE
    #DopamineAttentionVariabiltyExecutiveDysfunction
    #MotherDaughterConversations
    #family
    #ILoveThisKid

  2. ...

    13: OAF!

    me: I'm not an oaf! you take that back!

    13 *can't talk for laughing*

    me: how very dare

    13 *gasping between laughs*: i was trying to say opoe, but my lip caught on my braces!

    Reader, I almost had to pull the car over.

    🤣🤣🤣

    2/2

    #laughter
    #teenager
    #teen
    #7thGraderLife
    #ADHD
    #DAVE
    #DopamineAttentionVariabiltyExecutiveDysfunction
    #MotherDaughterConversations
    #family
    #ILoveThisKid

  3. ...

    13: OAF!

    me: I'm not an oaf! you take that back!

    13 *can't talk for laughing*

    me: how very dare

    13 *gasping between laughs*: i was trying to say opoe, but my lip caught on my braces!

    Reader, I almost had to pull the car over.

    🤣🤣🤣

    2/2

    #laughter
    #teenager
    #teen
    #7thGraderLife
    #ADHD
    #DAVE
    #DopamineAttentionVariabiltyExecutiveDysfunction
    #MotherDaughterConversations
    #family
    #ILoveThisKid

  4. ...

    13: OAF!

    me: I'm not an oaf! you take that back!

    13 *can't talk for laughing*

    me: how very dare

    13 *gasping between laughs*: i was trying to say opoe, but my lip caught on my braces!

    Reader, I almost had to pull the car over.

    🤣🤣🤣

    2/2

    #laughter
    #teenager
    #teen
    #7thGraderLife
    #ADHD
    #DAVE
    #DopamineAttentionVariabiltyExecutiveDysfunction
    #MotherDaughterConversations
    #family
    #ILoveThisKid

  5. ...

    13: OAF!

    me: I'm not an oaf! you take that back!

    13 *can't talk for laughing*

    me: how very dare

    13 *gasping between laughs*: i was trying to say opoe, but my lip caught on my braces!

    Reader, I almost had to pull the car over.

    🤣🤣🤣

    2/2

    #laughter
    #teenager
    #teen
    #7thGraderLife
    #ADHD
    #DAVE
    #DopamineAttentionVariabiltyExecutiveDysfunction
    #MotherDaughterConversations
    #family
    #ILoveThisKid

  6. A quotation from Gracian

    One half of the world laughs at the other, and fools are they all.
     
    [La mitad del mundo se está riendo de la otra mitad, con necedad de todos.]

    Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 101 (1647) [tr. Jacobs (1892)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/gracian-y-morales-ba…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #gracian #baltasargracian #dolt #folly #fool #humanity #laughter #scorn

  7. A quotation from Gracian

    One half of the world laughs at the other, and fools are they all.
     
    [La mitad del mundo se está riendo de la otra mitad, con necedad de todos.]

    Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 101 (1647) [tr. Jacobs (1892)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/gracian-y-morales-ba…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #gracian #baltasargracian #dolt #folly #fool #humanity #laughter #scorn

  8. A quotation from Gracian

    One half of the world laughs at the other, and fools are they all.
     
    [La mitad del mundo se está riendo de la otra mitad, con necedad de todos.]

    Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 101 (1647) [tr. Jacobs (1892)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/gracian-y-morales-ba…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #gracian #baltasargracian #dolt #folly #fool #humanity #laughter #scorn

  9. A quotation from Gracian

    One half of the world laughs at the other, and fools are they all.
     
    [La mitad del mundo se está riendo de la otra mitad, con necedad de todos.]

    Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 101 (1647) [tr. Jacobs (1892)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/gracian-y-morales-ba…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #gracian #baltasargracian #dolt #folly #fool #humanity #laughter #scorn

  10. A quotation from Einstein

    Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
     
    [Wer es unternimmt, auf dem Gebiet der Wahrheit und der Erkenntnis als Autoritat aufzutreten, scheitert am Gelachter der Gotter.]

    Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-American physicist
    Essay (1953-05-23), “Aphorisms for Leo Baeck [Neun Aphorismen], No. 8, Essays Presented to Leo Baeck on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday (1954) [Einstein Archives 28-962]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/einstein-albert/206/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #einstein #alberteinstein #divinepunishment #ego #gods #hubris #judge #judgment #knowledge #laughter #pride #truth

  11. A quotation from Einstein

    Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
     
    [Wer es unternimmt, auf dem Gebiet der Wahrheit und der Erkenntnis als Autoritat aufzutreten, scheitert am Gelachter der Gotter.]

    Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-American physicist
    Essay (1953-05-23), “Aphorisms for Leo Baeck [Neun Aphorismen], No. 8, Essays Presented to Leo Baeck on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday (1954) [Einstein Archives 28-962]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/einstein-albert/206/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #einstein #alberteinstein #divinepunishment #ego #gods #hubris #judge #judgment #knowledge #laughter #pride #truth

  12. A quotation from Einstein

    Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
     
    [Wer es unternimmt, auf dem Gebiet der Wahrheit und der Erkenntnis als Autoritat aufzutreten, scheitert am Gelachter der Gotter.]

    Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-American physicist
    Essay (1953-05-23), “Aphorisms for Leo Baeck [Neun Aphorismen], No. 8, Essays Presented to Leo Baeck on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday (1954) [Einstein Archives 28-962]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/einstein-albert/206/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #einstein #alberteinstein #divinepunishment #ego #gods #hubris #judge #judgment #knowledge #laughter #pride #truth

  13. A quotation from Einstein

    Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
     
    [Wer es unternimmt, auf dem Gebiet der Wahrheit und der Erkenntnis als Autoritat aufzutreten, scheitert am Gelachter der Gotter.]

    Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-American physicist
    Essay (1953-05-23), “Aphorisms for Leo Baeck [Neun Aphorismen], No. 8, Essays Presented to Leo Baeck on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday (1954) [Einstein Archives 28-962]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/einstein-albert/206/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #einstein #alberteinstein #divinepunishment #ego #gods #hubris #judge #judgment #knowledge #laughter #pride #truth

  14. A quotation from Einstein

    Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
     
    [Wer es unternimmt, auf dem Gebiet der Wahrheit und der Erkenntnis als Autoritat aufzutreten, scheitert am Gelachter der Gotter.]

    Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-American physicist
    Essay (1953-05-23), “Aphorisms for Leo Baeck [Neun Aphorismen], No. 8, Essays Presented to Leo Baeck on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday (1954) [Einstein Archives 28-962]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/einstein-albert/206/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #einstein #alberteinstein #divinepunishment #ego #gods #hubris #judge #judgment #knowledge #laughter #pride #truth

  15. “Germany commands distinct prestige, credibility within international community”: Defence Minister highlights his first visit to country

    Berlin [Germany], April 22 (ANI): Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday, while attending the Indian community event held…
    #Germany #DE #Europe #EU #Europa #added #based #companies #diplomaticrelations #hisvisit #indiandiaspora #laughter #thetwo #thisyear
    europesays.com/germany/6525/

  16. A quotation from Horace

    Smiles are contagious; so are tears; to see
    Another sobbing, brings a sob from me.
    No, no, good Peleus; set the example, pray,
    And weep yourself; then weep perhaps I may.
     
    [Ut ridentibus adrident, ita flentibus adflent
    humani voltus. Si vis me flere, dolendum est
    primum ipsi tibi: tum tua me infortunia laedent,
    Telephe vel Peleu.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 101ff (2.3.101-103) (19 BC) [tr. Conington (1874)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/83327/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #comedy #crying #drama #emotion #empathy #joy #laughter #performance #poetry #reaction #sorrow #stage #sympathy #theater #tragedy #weeping

  17. A quotation from Horace

    Smiles are contagious; so are tears; to see
    Another sobbing, brings a sob from me.
    No, no, good Peleus; set the example, pray,
    And weep yourself; then weep perhaps I may.
     
    [Ut ridentibus adrident, ita flentibus adflent
    humani voltus. Si vis me flere, dolendum est
    primum ipsi tibi: tum tua me infortunia laedent,
    Telephe vel Peleu.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 101ff (2.3.101-103) (19 BC) [tr. Conington (1874)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/83327/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #comedy #crying #drama #emotion #empathy #joy #laughter #performance #poetry #reaction #sorrow #stage #sympathy #theater #tragedy #weeping

  18. A quotation from Horace

    Smiles are contagious; so are tears; to see
    Another sobbing, brings a sob from me.
    No, no, good Peleus; set the example, pray,
    And weep yourself; then weep perhaps I may.
     
    [Ut ridentibus adrident, ita flentibus adflent
    humani voltus. Si vis me flere, dolendum est
    primum ipsi tibi: tum tua me infortunia laedent,
    Telephe vel Peleu.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 101ff (2.3.101-103) (19 BC) [tr. Conington (1874)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/83327/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #comedy #crying #drama #emotion #empathy #joy #laughter #performance #poetry #reaction #sorrow #stage #sympathy #theater #tragedy #weeping

  19. A quotation from Mark Twain

    For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon — laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution — these can lift at a colossal humbug — push it a little — weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. You are always fussing and fighting with your other weapons. Do you ever use that one? No; you leave it lying rusting. As a race, do you ever use it at all? No; you lack sense and the courage.

    Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
    Story (1916), The Mysterious Stranger, ch. 10

    More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/6368/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #mysteriousstranger #satan #absurdity #derision #fraud #humanity #humor #laughter #mockery #nonsense #power #weapon

  20. A quotation from Mark Twain

    For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon — laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution — these can lift at a colossal humbug — push it a little — weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. You are always fussing and fighting with your other weapons. Do you ever use that one? No; you leave it lying rusting. As a race, do you ever use it at all? No; you lack sense and the courage.

    Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
    Story (1916), The Mysterious Stranger, ch. 10

    More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/6368/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #mysteriousstranger #satan #absurdity #derision #fraud #humanity #humor #laughter #mockery #nonsense #power #weapon

  21. A quotation from Mark Twain

    For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon — laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution — these can lift at a colossal humbug — push it a little — weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. You are always fussing and fighting with your other weapons. Do you ever use that one? No; you leave it lying rusting. As a race, do you ever use it at all? No; you lack sense and the courage.

    Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
    Story (1916), The Mysterious Stranger, ch. 10

    More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/6368/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #mysteriousstranger #satan #absurdity #derision #fraud #humanity #humor #laughter #mockery #nonsense #power #weapon

  22. A quotation from Mark Twain

    For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon — laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution — these can lift at a colossal humbug — push it a little — weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. You are always fussing and fighting with your other weapons. Do you ever use that one? No; you leave it lying rusting. As a race, do you ever use it at all? No; you lack sense and the courage.

    Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
    Story (1916), The Mysterious Stranger, ch. 10

    More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/6368/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #mysteriousstranger #satan #absurdity #derision #fraud #humanity #humor #laughter #mockery #nonsense #power #weapon

  23. I stream to provide friendship & a friendly face & voice. We chat all sorts, have fun, but fundamentally it's a safe space.
    Massive thank you everyone who join's me in the morning. It's early for some & really late for others, but you are very much appreciated & everyone is welcome #Streamer #Twitch #Morning #Friendship #everyone #SafeSpace #Laughter #fun

  24. March 19 is National Let's Laugh Day but... isn't that everyday when you're The Confused Greenies of Players' Patchwork Theatre Company?

    Striving to make the world better one laugh, one smile at a time!

    #CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #ClevelandConCoction #CleCon #Goblin #Goblins #Tolkien #LotR #Fantasy #Laugh #Laughing #Laughter

  25. A quotation from Josh Billings

    Every time a man laffs he takes a kink out ov the chain ov life, and thus lengthens it.
     
    [Every time a man laughs he takes a kink out of the chain of life, and thus lengthens it.]

    Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
    Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1871-07 (1871 ed.)

    More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/82540/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #goodcheer #goodhumor #goodlife #humor #laughter #lifespan #living #longlife #senseofhumor

  26. A quotation from Josh Billings

    Every time a man laffs he takes a kink out ov the chain ov life, and thus lengthens it.
     
    [Every time a man laughs he takes a kink out of the chain of life, and thus lengthens it.]

    Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
    Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1871-07 (1871 ed.)

    More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/82540/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #goodcheer #goodhumor #goodlife #humor #laughter #lifespan #living #longlife #senseofhumor

  27. A quotation from Josh Billings

    Every time a man laffs he takes a kink out ov the chain ov life, and thus lengthens it.
     
    [Every time a man laughs he takes a kink out of the chain of life, and thus lengthens it.]

    Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
    Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1871-07 (1871 ed.)

    More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/82540/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #goodcheer #goodhumor #goodlife #humor #laughter #lifespan #living #longlife #senseofhumor

  28. A quotation from Josh Billings

    Every time a man laffs he takes a kink out ov the chain ov life, and thus lengthens it.
     
    [Every time a man laughs he takes a kink out of the chain of life, and thus lengthens it.]

    Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
    Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1871-07 (1871 ed.)

    More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/82540/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #goodcheer #goodhumor #goodlife #humor #laughter #lifespan #living #longlife #senseofhumor

  29. A quotation from James Thurber

    The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms — hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

    James Thurber (1894-1961) American cartoonist and writer
    Essay (1958-12-07), “State of the Nation’s Humor: ‘On the Brink of Was,'” New York Times Magazine

    More about this quote: wist.info/thurber-james/82477/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jamesthurber #emotion #laughter #tears #tone

  30. A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

    But his [Shakespeare’s] laughter seems to pour from him in floods; he heaps all manner of ridiculous nicknames on the butt he is bantering, tumbles and tosses him in all sorts of horse-play; you would say, with his whole heart laughs. And then, if not always the finest, it is always a genial laughter. Not at mere weakness, at misery or poverty; never. No man who can laugh, what we call laughing, will laugh at these things. It is some poor character only desiring to laugh, and have the credit of wit, that does so. Laughter means sympathy; good laughter is not “the crackling of thorns under the pot.” Even at stupidity and pretension this Shakspeare does not laugh otherwise than genially. Dogberry and Verges tickle our very hearts; and we dismiss them covered with explosions of laughter: but we like the poor fellows only the better for our laughing; and hope they will get on well there, and continue Presidents of the City-watch. Such laughter, like sunshine on the deep sea, is very beautiful to me.

    Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
    Lecture (1840-05-12), “The Hero as Poet,” Home House, Portman Square, London

    More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/82239…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #comedy #geniality #humor #laughter #senseofhumor #Shakespeare #sympathy

  31. A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

    But his [Shakespeare’s] laughter seems to pour from him in floods; he heaps all manner of ridiculous nicknames on the butt he is bantering, tumbles and tosses him in all sorts of horse-play; you would say, with his whole heart laughs. And then, if not always the finest, it is always a genial laughter. Not at mere weakness, at misery or poverty; never. No man who can laugh, what we call laughing, will laugh at these things. It is some poor character only desiring to laugh, and have the credit of wit, that does so. Laughter means sympathy; good laughter is not “the crackling of thorns under the pot.” Even at stupidity and pretension this Shakspeare does not laugh otherwise than genially. Dogberry and Verges tickle our very hearts; and we dismiss them covered with explosions of laughter: but we like the poor fellows only the better for our laughing; and hope they will get on well there, and continue Presidents of the City-watch. Such laughter, like sunshine on the deep sea, is very beautiful to me.

    Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
    Lecture (1840-05-12), “The Hero as Poet,” Home House, Portman Square, London

    More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/82239…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #comedy #geniality #humor #laughter #senseofhumor #Shakespeare #sympathy

  32. A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

    But his [Shakespeare’s] laughter seems to pour from him in floods; he heaps all manner of ridiculous nicknames on the butt he is bantering, tumbles and tosses him in all sorts of horse-play; you would say, with his whole heart laughs. And then, if not always the finest, it is always a genial laughter. Not at mere weakness, at misery or poverty; never. No man who can laugh, what we call laughing, will laugh at these things. It is some poor character only desiring to laugh, and have the credit of wit, that does so. Laughter means sympathy; good laughter is not “the crackling of thorns under the pot.” Even at stupidity and pretension this Shakspeare does not laugh otherwise than genially. Dogberry and Verges tickle our very hearts; and we dismiss them covered with explosions of laughter: but we like the poor fellows only the better for our laughing; and hope they will get on well there, and continue Presidents of the City-watch. Such laughter, like sunshine on the deep sea, is very beautiful to me.

    Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
    Lecture (1840-05-12), “The Hero as Poet,” Home House, Portman Square, London

    More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/82239…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #comedy #geniality #humor #laughter #senseofhumor #Shakespeare #sympathy

  33. A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

    But his [Shakespeare’s] laughter seems to pour from him in floods; he heaps all manner of ridiculous nicknames on the butt he is bantering, tumbles and tosses him in all sorts of horse-play; you would say, with his whole heart laughs. And then, if not always the finest, it is always a genial laughter. Not at mere weakness, at misery or poverty; never. No man who can laugh, what we call laughing, will laugh at these things. It is some poor character only desiring to laugh, and have the credit of wit, that does so. Laughter means sympathy; good laughter is not “the crackling of thorns under the pot.” Even at stupidity and pretension this Shakspeare does not laugh otherwise than genially. Dogberry and Verges tickle our very hearts; and we dismiss them covered with explosions of laughter: but we like the poor fellows only the better for our laughing; and hope they will get on well there, and continue Presidents of the City-watch. Such laughter, like sunshine on the deep sea, is very beautiful to me.

    Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
    Lecture (1840-05-12), “The Hero as Poet,” Home House, Portman Square, London

    More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/82239…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #comedy #geniality #humor #laughter #senseofhumor #Shakespeare #sympathy

  34. A quotation from Horace

    We learn more quickly and bring back to mind more readily
    The things we laugh at than those we respect and revere.
     
    [Discit enim citius, meminitque libentius ilud
    Quod quis deridet, quam quod probat et veneratur.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 1 “To Augustus,” l. 262ff (2.1.262-263) (14 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/81900/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #mockery #derision #disapproval #disrespect #laughter #memory #poetry #quality #remembering #respect #ridicule #scorn #writing

  35. A quotation from Horace

    We learn more quickly and bring back to mind more readily
    The things we laugh at than those we respect and revere.
     
    [Discit enim citius, meminitque libentius ilud
    Quod quis deridet, quam quod probat et veneratur.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 1 “To Augustus,” l. 262ff (2.1.262-263) (14 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/81900/

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  36. A quotation from Horace

    We learn more quickly and bring back to mind more readily
    The things we laugh at than those we respect and revere.
     
    [Discit enim citius, meminitque libentius ilud
    Quod quis deridet, quam quod probat et veneratur.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 1 “To Augustus,” l. 262ff (2.1.262-263) (14 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]

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  37. A quotation from Horace

    We learn more quickly and bring back to mind more readily
    The things we laugh at than those we respect and revere.
     
    [Discit enim citius, meminitque libentius ilud
    Quod quis deridet, quam quod probat et veneratur.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 1 “To Augustus,” l. 262ff (2.1.262-263) (14 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]

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  38. A quotation from Bill Watterson

       CALVIN: Isn’t it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor? When you think about it, it’s weird that we have a physiological response to absurdity. We laugh at nonsense. We like it. We think it’s funny. Don’t you think it’s odd that we appreciate absurdity? Why would we develop that way? How does it benefit us?
       HOBBES: I suppose if we couldn’t laugh at things that don’t make sense, we couldn’t react to a lot of life.
       CALVIN: (after a pause) I can’t tell if that’s funny or really scary.

    Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
    Calvin and Hobbes (1991-03-03)

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