“I make myself laugh at everything, in case I should have to weep”
P.A. Caron de Beaumarchais
“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.”
“Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.”
German Proverb
“And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep”
Lord Byron