Laughs

Famous quotes containing the word laughs:

“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)

“Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.”
—Douglas Jerrold (1803–1857)

“Meanwhile the angel,
dressed for laughs as a plasterer,
puts a match to whatever’s
lying in the grate: broken scaffolds,
empty cocoons, the paraphernalia
of unseen change.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)