Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known.
They that love mirth, let them heartily drink,
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Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known.
They that love mirth, let them heartily drink,
'Tis the only receipt to make sorrow sink.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.

We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

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.

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.

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.]

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Laughter is by definition healthy.