Where these words come from
- 85% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- First printed in James Howell's Proverbs, or Old Sayed-Sawes, and Adages in the English Toung (1659), p.12, per Wikipedia's sourced history section.
- Proverbs, or Old Sayed-Sawes, and Adages in the English Toung (James Howell)
- 1659 · England · earliest known printing of this saying
More on play
For the comic spirit has a logic of its own, even in its wildest eccentricities.Henri BergsonThe first point to which attention should be called is that the comic does not exist outside the pale of what is strictly HUMAN.Henri BergsonA landscape may be beautiful, charming and sublime, or insignificant and ugly; it will never be laughable.Henri BergsonIt seems as though the comic could not produce its disturbing effect unless it fell, so to say, on the surface of a soul that is thoroughly calm and unruffled.Henri BergsonIndifference is its natural environment, for laughter has no greater foe than emotion.Henri BergsonNow step aside, look upon life as a disinterested spectator: many a drama will turn into a comedy.Henri Bergson
