I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
Source: In You Might As Well Live, by John Keats, 1970.
-- Dorothy Parker, (Aug 22 1893-1967), US author, poet, journalist, humorist; She was the celebrated caustic wit of the 1920s; wrote Enough Rope, 1926 and The Little Hours, 1944.