"Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly."
― Jonathan Swift
Topic(s):
Humor
More From Jonathan Swift
- "I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution."
- "Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions."
- "No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience."
More In Humor
- "People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it’s a sense of humor. If you’ve got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive."― Phil Keoghan
- "Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever."― Mark Twain
- "I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any."― Lao Tzu