Laughing Man Task

Famous quotes containing the words laughing man, laughing, man and/or task:

    This crown to crown the laughing man, this rose-wreath crown: I myself have set this crown upon my head, I myself have pronounced my laughter holy.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    Oh, for boyhood’s painless play,
    Sleep that wakes in laughing day,
    Health that mocks the doctor’s rules,
    Knowledge never learned of schools.
    John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

    The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so.
    François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    I live for those who love me,
    Whose hearts are kind and true;
    For the Heaven that smiles above me,
    And awaits my spirit too;
    For all human ties that bind me,
    For the task by God assigned me,
    For the bright hopes yet to find me,
    And the good that I can do.
    George Linnaeus Banks (1821–1881)