Good friends can share a laugh at no one's expense.
From The Easy Virtue, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
Switch came by with a walnut he could not open and we spent most of the afternoon on it. He dropped it from the low branch, then the high one, then stood on it, and when it finally split he fell over backward and we both made a noise I can only call laughing. Nothing had been bested. The nut was not stupid and neither of us was clumsy; the walnut simply took a long time and then it did not. For years I thought a joke needed a loser in it somewhere, that the whole engine ran on somebody being caught out, and I made a few at the expense of a jay who deserved less than he got. Good friends can share a laugh at no one's expense. I am still not sure what the laugh was about, only that it went on after the nut was eaten.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
Have it on something
More like it
- Too many run out of hope before they run out of time.
- Hope for a better future, then head that way.
- Everything is possible, because nothing real is ever lost.
- Every kindness extended a stranger reduces a little the strangeness of the world.
- Just because the situation is critical does not mean it is impossible.
- If your feet are tapping, your heart is beating.