At lovers' perjuries,
They say, Jove laughs. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Sc. 2 ]
Love laughs at locksmiths. [ Proverb ]
A maid that laughs is half taken. [ Proverb ]
The thiefs wife laughs not always. [ Proverb ]
He laughs well who laughs the last. [ French Proverb ]
He laughs, but I am not laughed at.
Man laughs and weeps at the same things. [ Montaigne ]
Jupiter laughs at the perjuries of lovers. [ Ovid ]
He laughs ill that laughs himself to death. [ Proverb ]
He cares not whose child cries so his laughs. [ Proverb ]
A clear conscience laughs at false accusations. [ Proverb ]
Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows,
While proudly rising over the azure realm,
In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes,
Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm. [ Gray ]
Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows. [ Gray ]
Laugh not too much: the witty man laughs least:
For wit is news only to ignorance.
Less at thine own things laugh: lest in the jest
Thy person share, and the conceit advance. [ George Herbert ]
He is not laughed at that laughs at himself first. [ Proverb ]
A woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she will. [ Proverb ]
No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much. [ Jean Paul ]
He that laughs when he is alone will make sport in company. [ Proverb ]
The rich widow cries with one eye, and laughs with the other. [ Proverb ]
Commonly he is not stricken again, who laughs when he strikes. [ Proverb ]
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the herd. [ Thoreau ]
If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has. [ Colton ]
There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
Earth is here (in Australia) so kind, just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. [ Douglas Jerrold ]
He who laughs too much hath the nature of a fool, he that laughs not at all hath the nature of an old cat. [ Proverb ]
Like talks best with like, laughs best with like, works best with like, and enjoys best with like; and it cannot help it. [ Josiah Gilbert Holland (pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) ]
He that is proud of the rustling of his silks, like a madman, laughs at the rattling of his fetters; for, indeed, clothes ought to be our remembrancers of our lost innocency. [ Thomas Fuller ]
There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow. [ Seneca ]
However powerful one may be, whether one laughs or weeps, none can make thee speak, none can open thy hand before the time, O mute phantom, our shadow! specter always masked, ever at our side, called Tomorrow. [ Victor Hugo ]