Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
Interpretation
Sudden joy or triumph leads to unexpected laughter and expressions of happiness.
In this quote, Thomas Hobbes suggests that laughter is often a spontaneous reaction arising from a moment of sudden joy or victory. This unexpected emotion can create the 'grimaces' associated with laughter, highlighting the connection between our feelings of triumph and the physical expressions we exhibit in response to them.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of humor in our lives, one might use this quote to illustrate how laughter can emerge from moments of success.
Baptism is the sacrament of allegiance of them that are to be received into the Kingdom of God, that is to say, into Eternal life, that is to say, to Remission of Sin. For as Eternal life was lost by the committing, so it is recovered by the remitting of men's sins.
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
For it is not the shape, but their use, that makes them angels.
For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
Scientia potentia est, sed parva; quia scientia egregia rara est, nec proinde apparens nisi paucissimis, et in paucis rebus. Scientiae enim ea natura est, ut esse intelligi non possit, nisi ab illis qui sunt scientia praediti.
The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.
Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist.
The worst thing about television is that everybody you see on television is doing something better than what you're doing. You never see anybody on TV just sliding off the front of the sofa, with potato chip crumbs all over their shirt.
He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
When you're born in this world you're given a ticket to the Freak Show. And when you're born in America, you're given a front row seat. And some of us get to sit there with notebooks.
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
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