All joys do not cause laughter; great pleasures are serious: pleasures of love do not make us laugh.


A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1886)


All joys do not cause laughter; great pleasures are serious: pleasures of love do not make us laugh.

All joys do not cause laughter; great pleasures are serious: pleasures of love do not make us laugh.

All joys do not cause laughter; great pleasures are serious: pleasures of love do not make us laugh.

All joys do not cause laughter; great pleasures are serious: pleasures of love do not make us laugh.