Sean O'Casey

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

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I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.

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We couldn't live without comedy.

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All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

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Nothing seems too high or low for the humorist; he is above honor, above faith, preserving sense in religion and sanity in life.

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Oh Lord, give us a sense of humor with courage to manifest it forth, so that we may laugh to shame the pomps, the vanities, the sense of self-importance of the Big Fellows that the world sometimes sends among us, and who try to take our peace away.

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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.

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You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea; you cannot put an idea up against a barrack-square wall and riddle it with bullets; you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell that your slaves could ever build.

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Laughter is wine for the soul-laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness.

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A laugh is the loud echo of a sigh; a sigh the faint echo of a laugh.

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Laughter tends to mock the pompous and the pretentious; all man's boastful gadding about, all his pretty pomps, his hoary customs, his wornout creeds, changing the glitter of them into the dullest hue of lead.

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A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.

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So let us all who pray ask for what most of them need badly, a sense of humor to lighten their way through life, making it merrier for themselves and easier for others.

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Quotes by Sean O'Casey