Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

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

This is the way that physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem: but although we sneer In health--when ill, we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer.

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.