A different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
Quotes
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.
He deserves paradise who can make his companions laugh.
Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply callisthenics with words.
Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar; never spread it around like marmalade.
Humour is emotional chaos recollected in tranquillity.
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
Anyone can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success
True friendship is one soul shared by two bodies.