Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less chary of the latter than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never.
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The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
[La plus perdue de toutes les journées est celle où l’on n’a pas ri.]
Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées], ch. 1, # 80 (1795) [tr. Morley (1887)]
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Often attributed to a more contemporary comedian (Groucho Marx, Charlie Chaplin) or writers such as Ben Burroughs, Grigori Alexandrov. It is arguably a clear enough sentiment that others might reinvent it.
(Source (French)). Alternate translation:
The most lost of all days, is that in which we have not laughed.
[Source (1803)]
The most completely lost of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
[Source (1891)]
The worst wasted of all days is that during which one has not laughed.
[tr. Hutchinson (1902), "The Cynic's Breviary"]
Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted.
[tr. Mathers (1926)]
That of all days is the most completely wasted in which one did not once laugh.
[tr. Merwin (1969)]
The day that we have most lost is the one on which we have not laughed.
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Other versions:More history of the quotation: A Day Without Laughter is a Day Wasted – Quote Investigator®
- "A day without laughter is a day wasted." [Chaplin]
- "The most lost of all days is that in which one has not laughed."
- "The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed."