Joke Quotes

A joke is a very serious thing.
Winston Churchill

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
Maya Angelou

Life, Great, Hard

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
Will Rogers

Everything, Seriously, Taking

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.
Muhammad Ali

Truth, Tell, Joking

The gods too are fond of a joke.
Aristotle

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
Robert Frost

Great, Forgive, Big

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Point, Laughing, Cut

Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head, and the top of my head ain't funny!
Mitch Hedberg

Funny, Amazing, Why

I'm gonna fix that last joke by taking out all the words and adding new ones.
Mitch Hedberg

Words, Last, Taking

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
Gloria Steinem

Woman, Human, Treat

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Yourself, Someone, Else

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Yourself, Else, Wanted

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
George Orwell

Dirty, Mental, Rebellion

If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?
Steven Wright

Tell, Nobody, Forest

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
H. P. Lovecraft

Mankind, Indeed, Comic

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
Jessamyn West

Humor, Sense, Takes

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
T. S. Eliot

Time, Same, Listen

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
George Orwell

Human, Him, Aim

I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
Kanye West

Laugh, Enjoy, Put

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Religion, Good, Whether

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

Funny, Whatever, Dirty

Everybody I know is a joke writer.
Ron White

Everybody, Writer

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.
Ambrose Bierce

Call, Clever, Seldom

If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.
Lance Armstrong

Times, Face, Medieval

Sex is God's joke on human beings.
Bette Davis

God, Sex, Human

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
Max Eastman

Mind, Him, Goal

The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.
David Bowie

Work, Religion, Technology

It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything, anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen.
Alanis Morissette

Great, Anger, Bad

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?
Gore Vidal

Someone, Culture, Seen

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
H. G. Wells

Today, Crisis, Tomorrow

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