Quotes with jokes

  • Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?
  • Well, there are conjoined twins in real life and we can tell a story about them so long as they're not the brunt of the jokes. In this, they're the heroes of this story; we love these guys.
  • It's perfectly okay if you don't understand every single one of them. For one thing, I make a lot of corny jokes, and you have to be 40 years old to get some of them.
  • I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.
  • There was a sea of change in comedy in the late 1950s and '60s. We were dealing with vignettes as opposed to jokes. We were more socially aware.
  • If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.
  • In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before.
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  • Plato Even the gods love jokes.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Carol Burnett Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.
    Carol Burnett
    American actress, comedian, singer, and writer (1933 - )
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  • Sidney Madwed Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.
    Sidney Madwed
    American business consultant, lyricist and author
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  • George Bernard Shaw Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Cameron Boyce There is always something funny going on between scenes with Adam Sandler. He's always cracking jokes and yelling at people for no reason. It's pretty funny. He'll joke around during scenes, too. When he guest-starred on 'Jessie,' there was nothing in the script that he said first take.
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  • Laurence Sterne 'Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears, and art half stung to death by them, thou wilt never be convinced it is so.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • George Eliot A difference in taste of jokes is a great strain on the affections.
    Daniel Deronda (1876)
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • George Eliot A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Lee Siegel A jokes and a truth are not mutually exclusive. The best jokes are true and the best truths are jokes.
    Laughing Matters Act one: Satire
    Lee Siegel
    American academic (1945 - )
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  • Carly Craig A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.
    Carly Craig
    American actress (1980 - )
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Laurence Sterne All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Germaine Greer Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says ''What would I do without you?'' is already destroyed.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Laurence Sterne For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Robert Frost Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
    And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Beth Henley He started hating me, cause I couldn't laugh at his jokes. I just started finding it impossible to laugh at his jokes the way I used to.
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • James C. Humes I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.
    James C. Humes
    American author and former presidential speechwriter (1934 - )
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  • Will Rogers I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Alfred P. Sloan I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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