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

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

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

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.

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