A jest breaks no bones.
—Samuel Johnson, 1781
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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.
—George Orwell, 1945Big head, little wit.
—French proverbI used to think that everyone was just being funny. But now I don’t know. I mean, how can you tell?
—Andy Warhol, 1970I said of laughter, “It is mad,” and of pleasure, “What use is it?”
—Book of Ecclesiastes, 225 BC