Ascending/comedy

Famous quotes containing the words ascending and/or comedy:

“To do good is like ascending a mountain; to do evil as easy as following an avalanche.”
—Chinese proverb.

“It is comedy which typifies, where it is tragedy which individualizes; where tragedy observes the nice distinctions between man and man, comedy stresses those broad resemblances which make it difficult to tell people apart.”
—Harry Levin (b. 1912)