Laudatus abunde, / Non fastiditus si tibi, lector, ero—Abundantly, reader, shall I be praised if I do not cause thee disgust. Ovid.
Laudem virtutis necessitati damus—We give to necessity the praise of virtue. Quinct.
Laudibus arguitur vini vinosus—He is convicted of being a wine-bibber by his praises of wine. Hor.
Laudo Deum verum, plebem voco, congrego 5 clerum, / Defunctos ploro, pestem fugo, festa decoro—I praise the true God, I summon the people, I call together the clergy, I bewail the dead, I put to flight the plague, I celebrate festivals. Inscription on a church bell.
Laudo manentem; si celeres quatit / Pennas, resigno quæ dedit, et mea / Virtute me involvo probamque / Pauperiem sine dote quæro—I praise her (Fortune) while she stays with me; if she flaps her swift pinions, I resign all she has given me, and wrap myself up in my own virtue and pay my addresses to honest undowered poverty. Hor.
Laugh and be fat. Ben Jonson.
Laugh at all twaddle about fate. A man's fate is what he makes it, nothing else. Anon.
Laugh at leisure; ye may greet (weep) ere nicht. Sc. Pr.
Laugh not too much: the witty man laughs 10 least: / For wit is news only to ignorance. / Less at thine own things laugh: lest in the jest / Thy person share, and the conceit advance. George Herbert.
Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, / But vindicate the ways of God to man. Pope.