A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

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.

Jesters do oft prove prophets.

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