The wise learn many things from their enemies.

Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh?

I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.

Comedy is allied to justice.