“We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.”
“It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.”
“It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.”
“I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all. ”
“We may avoid shame if we choose, for shame seldom takes us unawares but has its warning cry, and we can hear that cry as clearly as we can hear the coming of the north wind... The man lying in the mud hadn't heard the coming of the north wind.”
“It's laugh or cry," said Rigg."Cry then. Give the old man his due.”