Quotes About Joke

All great humorists are sad... I cannot help seeing beyond the tinsel of humour, and recognising the pitiful basis of jest - the world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

The world is a very serious and, at times, very sad place - but at other times it is all such a joke.

The once-surprising existence of non-Euclidean models of Euclid's first four axioms can be seen as a sort of mathematical joke.

A lot of people are actually surprised when I do open up my mouth and smile a little bit, and crack a joke and drink a beer.

I've always wanted to entertain people, or make them smile, or tell a joke that would make them laugh. I don't think there was this deep down burning passion to be an actor.

In 1989 an American invasion, Operation Just Cause, had ousted the government of President Manuel Noriega. 'They got rid of Ali Baba but they forgot the forty thieves,' ran a popular joke in Panama.

She texts Kylie the dumb joke she's been saving up all morning: How do you think the unthinkable? When Kylie doesn't respond after a minute, Rachel sends her the answer: With an itheberg.

Getting rid of the mirrors—what a joke that was. Just hiding the truth. All those smashed mirrors in the town dump. All that bad luck circling back to her.

Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can't fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows. As soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes, then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can't heat up as well. Cold draft comes in.

There is the old joke made by the Marx who laughed about not deigning to belong to a club that would accept someone like him as a member, a truth as appropriate in love as it is in club membership.

By now the streets of Kalaupapa were filled with people racing for high ground - sick people crying Tsunami! as nature played yet another mean trick on them, God's last best joke at their expense. It was, after all, April Fool's Day.

I heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Life seems harsh, and cruel. Says he feels all alone in threatening world. Doctor says: Treatment is simple. The great clown - Pagliacci - is in town. Go see him. That should pick you up. Man bursts into tears. But doctor... he says I am Pagliacci. Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum. Curtains.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

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

Never ever make a joke to the police, they have no sense of humour. Never make a political joke, it will always be considered an insult. Always remember that umbrage can be taken by the lift of an eyebrow. Remember that if offence can possibly be taken, it will be.

The Devil for a joke Might carve his own initials on our desk, And yet we'd miss the point because he spoke An idiom too dated, Audenesque.

Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.

No reason to get excited,' the thief, he kindly spoke, There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.

If life is merely a joke, the question still remains: for whose amusement? No one knows what he can do till he tries.

Perhaps the way to succeed is to think of life on Earth as a colossal joke, a creation of such immense stupidity that the only way to live is to laugh until you think your heart will break.

Hello!" barked Dr. Joan Davenport. Lissa frowned slightly and felt her heart rate jump up and her nerves pile in. "Um," said Lissa. "Are you Alyssa Westcott?" "Um, Lissa?" Joan looked like she couldn't care less about that. "Well, you're my charge, it appears. I did ask for a boy." Lissa was confused. "Just my little joke! Never mind! Nobody reads, I get it, I get it.

I'm gonna master it just like I mastered the other kind of French." He winks at me. Kitty and I both scream at him for that. "Don't talk like that in front of my sister!" I yell, shoving him in the chest. "I was kidding!" "Also, you're not that good at French kissing." Even though, yeah, he is. Peter gives me a Who are you kidding? look, and I shrug, because who am I kidding?

and it was so funny I nearly peed my pants?

Peter's smiling, and he looks like he's about to crack a joke, so I swiftly add, "Or any other body part.