“We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?”
Anna Letitia Barbauld
“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”
William Blake
“I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep.”
William Shakespeare
“Praises reap not! Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not!”
“Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps.”
“And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep”
Lord Byron
“Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.”
German Proverb