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. . . LATIN see "LANGUAGE" for related links I did not do well in examinations. This was especially true of my Entrance Examination to Harrow. The Headmaster, Mr Welldon, however, took a broad-minded view of my Latin prose: he showed discernment in judging my general ability. This was the more remarkable, because I was found unable to answer a single question in the Latin paper. I wrote my name at the top of the page. I wrote down the number of the question 'I'. After much reflection I put a bracket round it thus '(I)'. But thereafter I could not think of anything connected with it that was either relevant or true. Incidentally there arrived from nowhere in particular a blot of ink and several smudges. I gazed for two whole hours at this sad spectacle: and then merciful ushers collected my piece of foolscap with all the others and carried it up to the Headmaster's table. It was from these slender indications of scholarship that Mr Welldon drew the conclusion that I was worthy to pass into Harrow. It is very much to his credit. It showed that he was a man capable of looking beneath the surface of things: a man not dependent upon paper manifestations. I have always had the greatest regard for him. --Winston Churchill (18741965) British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister [19401945, 19511955]. _My Early Life_ [1930] I was in the library in 1915, studying a Latin poet, and all of a sudden I thought: 'War can't be this bad.' So I walked out and enlisted. --Lester B. Pearson (18971972) Canadian prime minister [19631968]. - O LATIN O Latin! my Latin! that study hour is done My brain has weathered every verb, the translation now is won, The time is near, the bell I hear, the pupils all revolting, While follow eyes the unforeseen, a "comp" test grim and scarring. But O heart! heart! heart! The wrong lesson I have read, And at the desk the teacher sits, My lord, what she has said! O Latin! my Latin! O when will ring that bell? Rise up! rise up! for you are next ye gods, but this is For you bad marks and scarlet "d's", for you a failing waiting, For you she calls, the teacher dear, her dark green eyes are gleaming, O trot! dear trot! The time is almost sped. It would be fine if on the desk The teacher would fall dead. I surely cannot answer, my lips are tight and still, My teacher looks so wild and bold, she gives me now a chill, My classmates snicker, now they grin, a murmur starts to run, A fearful class! I'll never pass! my lessons are not done. Walk out, O class, when rings the bell, But I with mournful tread, Go to the room at her request And come out almost dead. --Theodor Seuss Geisel [Dr. Seuss] (19041991) American writer and illustrator of children's books. At age 14 [7 February 1919]. _Central Recorder_, the school newspaper of Central High School, Springfield, Massachusetts, quoted in: Charles D. Cohen, _The Seuss, the Whole Seuss, and Nothing But the Seuss, A Visual Biography of Theodor Seuss Geisel_ [2004]. - "SI HOC LEGERE SCIS NIMIUM ERUDTIONIS HABES" (If you can read this, you have too much education) --Deacon John Toandl Acta est fabula: It's all over (lit. the drama has been acted out) Alea jacta est: The die is cast Audaces fortuna juvat: Fortune favors the bold Auri sacra fames: The cursed hunger for gold Ave atque vale: Hail and farewell Ave Caesar morituri te salutant!: Hail, Caesar! Those who are about to die salute you! Beati pauperes spiritu: Blessed are the poor in spirit Bis repetita placent: The things that please are repeated again and again Caveat emptor: Let the buyer beware Cogito ergo sum: I think therefore I am De facto: In reality De mortuis nil nisi bonum: Speak nothing but good of the dead Diem perdidi: I have lost the day Dignus est intrare: He is worthy to enter Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos: As long as you are fortunate, you will have many friends Errare humanum est: To err is human Et tu, Brute: You too, Brutus Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas: Fortunate is he who has been able to learn the causes of things Fluctuat nec mergitur: It is tossed by the waves but it does not sink Gloria victis: Glory to the defeated Gnothe seauton (Greek): Know thyself Ipso facto: By that very fact Ira furor brevis est: Anger is a brief madness Ita est: Thus it is (yes) Ita diis placuit: Thus it pleased the gods Maior e longinquo reverentia: Greater reverence from afar Mens sana in corpore sano: A sound mind in a sound body Morituri te salutant: Those who are about to die salute you Non omnia possumus omnes: We cannot all do everything Non licet omnibus adire Corinthum: Not everyone is permitted to go to Corinth Nunc est bibendum: Now it is time to drink O tempora, o mores: Oh! the the times! Oh! the habits! Pax Romana: Roman Peace Plaudite cives!: Applaud, citizens! Populas me sibilat, at mihi plaudo ipse domi simul ac nummos cotemplor in arca: (The people hiss me, but I applaud myself as I count the money in my strongbox at home.) Qui habet aures audiendi audiat: He who has ears, let him understand how to listen Quid novi?: What's new? Quis, quod, ui, quibus auxiliis, cur, quomodo, quando?: Who, what, where, in what ways, why how and when? Quo vadis: Whither goest thou? Quod erat demomstrandum: We have proved the proposition we set out to prove (lit. Which was to be demonstrated) Quomodo vales: How are you? Quot capita, to sensus: There are as many opinions as there are heads Quousque tandem?: How long? Si vis pacem: If you want peace... (ends: 'para bellum' = prepare for war) Sic ad nauseam: And so on to the point of causing nausea Sic transit gloria (mundi): Thus passes away the glory of the world Singularis Porcus: Wild boar Sol lucet omnibus: The sun shines for everyone Timeo Danaos et Dona ferentes: I fear the Greeks even when bearing gifts Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant: Where they create desolation, they call it peace Vade retro: Get thee behind me Vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity Veni vidi vici: I came, I saw, I conquered Veritas odium parit: Truth breeds hatred Victurus te saluto: He who is about to win salutes you Video meliora proboque deteriora sequor: I see the better way and approve it, but I follow the worse way Vinum et musica laetificant cor: Wine and music gladden the heart Vis comica: Sense of humour Fun..... "Domino vobiscum!" (The Pizza guy is here.) "Revelare Pecunia!" (Show me the money!) "Motorolus interruptus." (Hold on, I'm going into a tunnel.) "Sic semper tyrannus." (Your dinosaur is alway ill.) "Bodicus mutilatus, unemploymi ad infinitum" (Better take the nose ring out before the job interview) "Nucleo predicus dispella conducticus" (Remove foil before microwaving) "Veni, vidi, velcro" (I came, I saw, I stuck around.) "Veni, vidi, Visa" (I came, I saw, I did a little shopping.) "Veni, vidi, Vichy" (I came, I saw, I surrendered.) "Et tu, pluribus unum?" (Did the government just stab me in the back?)  . . see "HUMOR" for related links You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself. --Ethel Barrymore (18791959) American actress of the Barrymore family. In Jack Canfield _Chicken Soup for the Recovering Soul_, p. 268 [2004]. The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused. --Shirley Maclaine [Shirley MacLean Beaty] (1934 ) American actress. Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously. --Og Mandino (19231996) American author and motivational speaker. Laughing at ourselves is possible when we are able to see humanity as it is a little lower than the angels and at times only slightly higher than the apes. --Tom Mullen Public speaker and author. _Laughing Out Loud and Other Religious Experiences_ If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself. --Charles Schulz (19222000) American cartoonist. The burden of the self is lightened when I laugh at myself. --Rabindranath Tagore (18611941) Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer, playwright, and painter who won the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature. Attributed in Larry Chang _Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing_, p. 375 [2006]. It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously. --Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov [19212004] British entertainer, writer, and humanitarian. - Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others. --anon. ;void(0)) LAUGHTER . . see "HUMOR" for related links When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another. --Alan Alda (b. 1936) American actor. Among those whom I like, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. --W.H. [Wystan Hugh] Auden (19071973) English-born poet and man of letters. _The Dyer's Hand_ [1962], "Notes on the Comic" You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. --Sir James Matthew Barrie (18601937) Scottish writer and dramatist. _Peter Pan_, act I [1928] - I quickly laugh at everything, for fear of having to cry. --Pierre de Beaumarchais (17321799) French playwright and adventurer. _Le Barbier de Sιville_ [1775], Act I, Sc. II & see: And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep. --Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (17881824) English Romantic poet and satirist. "Don Juan" Canto 4, st. 4 [1821] - Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. --Lyman Beecher (17751865) Presbyterian clergyman and abolitionist. [Father of Henry Ward Beecher & Harriet Beecher Stowe.] Strange, when you come to think of it, that of all the countless folk who have lived before our time on this planet not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter. --Sir Max Beerbohm (18721956) English satirist and caricaturist. From quiet homes and first beginning, Out to the undiscovered ends, There's nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love of friends. --Hilaire Belloc (18701953) British poet, essayist, historian, and novelist. "Dedicatory Ode" The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that's laughable is vanity. --attributed to Henri Bergson (18591941) French philosopher. Do you know why God withheld the sense of humor from women? That we may love you instead of laughing at you. --Mrs. Patrick Campbell [Beatrice Stella Tanner] (18651940) British stage actress. Ready to split his sides with laughter. --Miguel de Cervantes (15471616) Spanish novelist. _Don Quixote de la Mancha_ [16051615] Pt. 1 [1605], bk. 3, ch. 13. The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed. --Sιbastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort (17411794) French playwright and conversationalist. _Pensιes, maximes et anecdotes_ [1795] If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man...you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky (18211881), Russian novelist, journalist, and short story writer. I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can. --Linda Ellerbee (1944 ) American journalist. That day is lost on which one has not laughed. --French Proverb Those who tickle themselves may laugh when they please. --German Proverb - The man of understanding finds everything laughable. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (17491832) German poet, novelist, and playwright. Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (17491832) German poet, novelist, and playwright. _Maxims and Reflections_, vol. III, p. 206 [1819] - Listen, Suckers, why take life so seriously in a hundred years we will all be gone or in some stuffy book. Give me plenty of laughs and you can take all the rest. --Mary Cecelia Louise "Texas" Guinan (18841933) American saloon keeper, actress, and entrepreneur. In Louise Berliner, _Texas Guinan, Queen of the Night Clubs_ [1993]. Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess was why several of us died of tuberculosis. --Jack Handey (1949 ) American comedian and comedy writer. _Deeper Thoughts_ [1993] I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful. --Bob [Leslie Townes] Hope (19032003) British-born American entertainer and actor. A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book. --Irish proverb Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods. --Japanese Proverb - Does laughing make your heart healthier? It may sound funny, but doctors now say they have serious evidence to support the idea. A new study shows that enjoying a joke or two can improve the function of blood vessels. Medical experts have warned about the effects of stress on cardiovascular health, and science backs up their concerns: When faced with a difficult situation, the body releases hormones that elevate blood pressure. These hormones, adrenaline and noradrenaline, produce this effect by causing blood vessels to constrict. [...] A study published in 2000 provided preliminary evidence that laughter can help the heart, says Michael Miller, director of preventive cardiology at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. In that study, he and his colleagues interviewed people who had either suffered heart attacks or undergone procedures to clear out clogged arteries. They found that these patients reported laughing less than those who did not have heart disease. --Roxanne Khamsi "Laughter boosts blood-vessel health" BioEd Online [7 March 2005] - Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral. --Charles Lamb (17751834) English essayist. _Letter to Southey_ [1815] With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. --Abraham Lincoln (18091865) American Republican statesman, President [18611865]. If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there. --Martin Luther (14831546) German Protestant theologian. Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humor, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element, belongs to man. --Margaret Mead (19011978) American anthropologist. In "Redbook" magazine [March 1963]. This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given; The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, There's nothing true but Heaven. --Thomas Moore (17791852) Irish poet, satirist, composer, and musician. _This World Is All a Fleeting Show_ The freedom of any society varies proportionately with the volume of its laughter. --Zero Mostel (19151977) Stage actor who was blacklisted in the 1950s. - We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. --Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (18441900) German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture. He who laughs best today will also laugh last. --Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (18441900) German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture. _The Twilight of the Idols_ [1889] Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. --Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (18441900) German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture. In _The Will to Power_ (ed. Heinrich Kφselitz, Ernst Horneffer, and August Horneffer), quoted by William Mackintire Salter in _Nietzsche the Thinker: A Study_ [1917]. - Laughter is wine for the soul laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness . the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living. --Sean O'Casey (18801964) Irish dramatist and memorist. Saturday Night in _Green Crows_ [1956] Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye. --Dorothy Parker (18931967) American critic and humorist. "Inventory" [1926] He who laughs, lasts! --Mary Pettibone Poole (fl. 1938) American writer. _A Glass Eye at a Keyhole_ [1938] We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. --Agnes Repplier (18551950) American author. _Americans and Others_ [1912] We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. --Will Rogers [William Penn Adair Rogers] (18791935) American humorist and actor. The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool. --George Santayana (18631952) Spanish-born philosopher and critic. _Dialogues in Limbo_, ch. 3 [1925] I live by this credo: Have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. Even in your darkest moment, you usually can find something to laugh about if you try hard enough. --Red [Richard Bernard] Skelton (19131997) American comedian. A good laugh is sunshine in a house. --William Makepeace Thackeray (18111863) English novelist. The sound of laughter has always seemed to me the most civilized music in the universe. --Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov [19212004] British entertainer, writer, and humanitarian. Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything. --Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (19222007) American novelist and short-story writer. _Cat's Cradle_ [1963] Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. --Ella Wheeler Wilcox (18501919) American author and poet. "Solitude", _New York World_ [3 February 1883] Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah now that's a real treat! --attributed to Joanne Woodward (b. 1930) American actress. What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. --Yiddish proverb ----- cachinnation (noun) [kak-uh-`ney-shuhn] Convulsive, hysterical, or immoderate laughter. chortle [CHOR-tl], transitive and intransitive verb: To utter, or express with, a snorting, exultant laugh or chuckle. noun: A snorting, exultant laugh or chuckle. paraoxysm (noun) ['pζ-rhκk-si-zm] A spasm or convulsion; a sudden, convulsive outburst of emotion. risible [RIZ-uh-buhl], adjective: 1. Capable of laughing; disposed to laugh. 2. Exciting or provoking laughter; worthy of laughter; laughable; amusing. Synonyms: ludicrous, laughable, amusing. Ex.: Before long, I began to read aloud with my father, chanting the strange and wondrous rivers -- Shenandoah, Rappahannock, Chickahominy -- and wrapping my tongue around the risible names of rebel generals: Braxton Bragg, Jubal Early, John Sappington Marmaduke, William "Extra Billy Smith, Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard. --Tony Horwitz, _Confederates in the Attic_ end page | KARMA - KENTUCKY | KINDNESS | KILL - KU KLUX KLAN | KNOWLEDGE | LABELS - LAS VEGAS | LANGUAGE | LATIN - LAUGHTER | LAW (THE) - LAWYERS | LAZINESS - LEGACY | LEARNING | LEISURE - LIBERALS | LIBERTY - LIES | LIFE | LIFESTYLE - LIMITATIONS | LINCOLN (ABRAHAM) - LITTERING | LIVE - LONDON | LONELINESS - LOUISIANA | LOVE - PAGE 1 (A-L) | LOVE - PAGE 2 (M-Z) | LOVE & MARRIAGE - LYNCHING | | H | I - J | K - L | M | N - O | P - Q | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The Reviews | |
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