joke Quotes

“Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?”

“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.”

“The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.”

“Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.”

“If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.”

“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.”

“I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.”

“Sex is God's joke on human beings.”

“It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.”

“A joke is a very serious thing.”