Laugh at yourself first before anyone else can.

Laugh at yourself first before anyone else can.

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone.

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone.

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.

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we
laugh at all.

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we
laugh at all.

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.]

One half the world laughs at the other, and fools are they all.

One half the world laughs at the other, and fools are they all.

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself
conspicuous in the act of laughter.

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself
conspicuous in the act of laughter.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.