The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.
Leo RostenHumor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers.
Leo RostenI learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
Leo Rosten