He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.
This crown to crown the laughing man, this rose-wreath crown: I myself have set this crown upon my head, I myself have pronounced my laughter holy.
What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just that shall man be for the superman: a laughing-stockor a painful embarrassment.
What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!--And he who laughs best today will also laugh last.
Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!
One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.
I have somehow something like "influence" ... In the Anti-Semitic Correspondence ... my name is mentioned in almost every issue. Zarathustra ... has charmed the anti-Semites; there is a special anti-Semitic interpretation of it that made me laugh very much.
I live in my own place - have never copied anyone even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh.
Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night.