Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people read more

Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.

The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of
the fool: this also is read more

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of
the fool: this also is vanity.

One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it around like marmelade.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it around like marmelade.

And if I laugh at any mortal thing,
'Tis that I may not weep.

And if I laugh at any mortal thing,
'Tis that I may not weep.

When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.

When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that
which he laughs at, than that which he read more

For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that
which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.
[Lat., Discit enim citius, meminitque libentius ilud
Quod quis deridet, quam quod probat et veneratur.]