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

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.

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

I said of laughter, “It is mad,” and of pleasure, “What use is it?”

Wit enables us to act rudely with impunity.