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.
I know of only six genuine comic geniuses in movie history; Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Groucho Marx & Harpo Marx, Peter Sellers, and W.C. Fields.
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.
I said, "I do not fear those pants with nobody inside them." I said, and said, and said those words. I said them but I lied them.
Golf is the ultimate avoidance activity for the dysfunctional dad. A game so nonsensically difficult, so pointless, so irrationally time consuming, the word golf itself can only stand for βGet Out, Leave Family.β
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