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Jokes and jokers

Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.

- Williams, Carey

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Jokes are grievances.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Bierce, Ambrose

The funniest line in English is Get it? When you say that, everyone chortles.

Keillor, Garrison

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. Where be your jibes now, your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar?

Shakespeare, William

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?

Shaw, George Bernard

In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before.

Dane, Frank

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

Cibber, Colley

All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.

Swift, Jonathan

The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was not worthy of the joke. They have introduced an almost insane individualism into that one form of intercourse which is specially and uproariously communal. They have made even levities into secrets. They have made laughter lonelier than tears.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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His hilarity was like a scream from a crevasse.

Greene, Graham

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The average man is proof enough that a woman can take a joke.

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I remain just one thing, and one thing only -- and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

Chaplin, Charlie

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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.

Angelou, Maya

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If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.

Marx, Groucho

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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.

Sterne, Laurence

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A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

Orwell, George

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Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown, and they only want you to make them laugh.

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