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Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

I hasten to laugh at everything for fear of being obliged to weep at it.

Thou hast done a deed whereat valour will weep.

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were a cause indeed to weep.

Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.

The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?