Big head, little wit.

Laughter always arises from a gaiety of disposition, absolutely incompatible with contempt and indignation.

I used to think that everyone was just being funny. But now I don’t know. I mean, how can you tell?

A joke is at most a temporary rebellion against virtue, and its aim is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded.

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.

No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.

Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature. Laughter hath only a scornful tickling.

Wit enables us to act rudely with impunity.

A jest breaks no bones.

There is nothing sillier than a silly laugh.

Jesters do oft prove prophets.

Jokes are grievances.

Jests and scoffs do lessen majesty and greatness and should be far from great personages and men of wisdom.