“It's a good thing to be laughed at. It's better than to be ignored.”
Harold Macmillan (1894–1986) British politician
In a handwritten note to the Postmaster General, who wanted to take action against "That Was The Week That Was", a satirical program. <br class="br">Taken from letters-of-note.com http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/06/it-is-good-thing-to-be-laughed-at.html <br class="br">1980s
Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536) Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, and theologian
De pueris statim ac liberaliter instituendis declamatio (1529), translated by Beert C. Verstraete as On Education for Children, in The Erasmus Reader (University of Toronto Press: 1990), p. 73
“I know why we laugh. We laugh because it hurts, and it's the only thing to make it stop hurting.”
Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land
Variant: I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much... because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
Matthew Perry (actor) (1969) American actor
Gail Pennington (May 2, 2004) "Farewell, "Friends": Sitcom's Finale on Thursday Night May Draw Up to 85 Million Viewers", The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. F1.
Friedrich Nietzsche book On the Genealogy of Morality
Essay 2, Section 15
On the Genealogy of Morality (1887)
“music's a good thing, it calm the beast in the man.”
Joseph Stalin (1879–1953) General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
“It’s better to get the last laugh than the joke.”
Ron English (1959) American artist
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)
