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Quote of Oscar Wilde - Laughter is not at all a...


Biography - Oscar Wilde:

Irish playwright, novelist, essayist and poet.
Born: 1854 - Died: 1900
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
United Kingdom

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.



Translation

Translation

(German, French)



German
Lachen ist durchaus kein schlechter Beginn für eine Freundschaft und ihr bei weitem bestes Ende.

French
Le rire n'est pas un mauvais début pour une amitié, c'est aussi de loin la meilleure façon de la terminer.




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Quotes for: friendship


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Quotes about friendship:


Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.





It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.





If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.





Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.





Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.





It is the fool's misfortune to fail in obtaining the position, the employment, the neighbourhood, and the circle of friends that suit him.











Quotes for: laughter


Quotes

Quotes for: laughter


It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.





Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.





You shall learn to laugh. Now, all higher humor begins with this, that one no longer takes one's person seriously.





We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.





The most completely lost of all days is that on which one has not laughed.





A day without laughter is a day wasted.











Quotes

Oscar Wilde also said...


Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.





To be in love is to surpass one's self.





When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.





Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.





Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.





In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.












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