Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to someone else.
- Will Rogers
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
- William Hazlitt
We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
- William Hazlitt
One of the most evil dispositions possible is that which satirizes and turns everything to ridicule. God abhors this vice, and has sometimes punished it in a marked manner