Laughs

Famous quotes containing the word laughs:

“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)

“War brought more glory to their eyes than blood,
And gave their laughs more glee than shakes a child.”
—Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)

“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)