Laughed

Famous quotes containing the word laughed:

    They all laughed at Christopher Columbus
    When he said the world was round.
    Ira Gershwin (1896–1983)

    Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.
    Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)