bodleingGreater Manchester, England UK13,810 posts
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.
bodleing: 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.
The Oxford dictionary of quotations.
But don't ask me who said it....
ought to be you, but I think the hound convinced you to post it.
bodleing: 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.
The Oxford dictionary of quotations.
But don't ask me who said it....
"Man is the only animal that blushes....or needs to..." Mark Twain
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Let's leave my mother's tongue out of this.