joke Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about joke.
“It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
“If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.”
- Richard Russo
“Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?”
- Dick Clark
“A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.”
- Clifton Fadiman
“Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science.”
- Arthur Machen
“A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.”
- Clifton Paul Fadiman
“I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.”
- Wallace Shawn
“The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.”
- Ron Reagan
“It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic - another joke marriage.”
- Sophia Bush
“It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.”
- Martha Gellhorn