It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.
I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down.
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others' discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it's funny.
In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
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.
I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties.
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.