For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.

In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.