Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1707 |
| AUTHOR: | Mrs. Patrick (Beatrice Stella Tanner Campbell) Campbell (1865–1940) |
| QUOTATION: | “Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.” |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Since this was in quotation marks in the letter, it may have been her own version of the familiar lines, “Laugh, and the world laughs with you; / Weep, and you weep alone.” These are the first two lines of Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s poem, “Solitude,” first published in 1883 in her Poems of Passion and widely reprinted in newspapers, often without attribution.—Burton Stevenson, Famous Single Poems, pp. 223–242 (1935). |
| SUBJECTS: | Sleep |