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Quotes About Joke

Much as you joke about it, it wouldn't do for anyone to find you here. My brothers are unpredictable, and Gran might just chase you around the manor with her cane.
~ Sabrina Jeffries
Why is war so much like a practical joke? she thinks. Hiding behind bushes, leaping out, with not much difference between Boo! and Bang! except the blood.
~ Margaret Atwood
I guess you get all my money, I said. And I'm not even dead. I was trying for a joke, but it came out sounding macabre. Hush, he said. He was still kneeling on the floor. You know I'll always take care of you. I thought, already he's starting to patronize me. Then I thought, already you're starting to get paranoid.
~ Margaret Atwood
Not me," said Jimmy, trying to joke. "I don't have a price." Wrong, as usual.
~ Margaret Atwood
There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time
~ Achille Castiglioni
Because a mother's love is God's greatest joke.
~ Anne Enright
What goes click ninety-nine times and clack once? A centipede with a clubfoot.
~ Anne Frank
It strikes fear to my heart when Peter talks of later being a criminal, or of gambling; although it's meant as a joke, of course, it gives me the feeling that he's afraid of his own weakness.
~ Anne Frank
The basic formula for drama is setup, buildup, payoff—just like a joke.
~ Anne Lamott
I'm not myself, I added hesitantly. I haven't survived all this as well as I should have survived it. My body's healed - the old miracle. But I don't understand my present view of things. The bitterness. the utter darkness. Never has life itself seemed so senseless. It's a joke, isn't it? Consciousness, it's a kind of joke.
~ Anne Rice
Woman rescued by Yeti!'How dare they make this into a joke.
~ Anne Rice
It's not for you- shows the ability to respect someone enough that you're not going to waste their time. It's the freedom to ignore the critics who don't get the joke.
~ Seth Godin
It's not for you' shows the ability to respect someone enough that you're not going to waste their time. It's the freedom to ignore the critics who don't get the joke.
~ Seth Godin
It's not for you shows the ability to respect someone enough that you're not going to waste their time. It's the freedom to ignore the critics who don't get the joke. ===
~ Seth Godin
It's not for you- It shows the ability to respect someone enough that you're not going to waste their time. It's the freedom to ignore the critics who don't get the joke.
~ Seth Godin
Just how many sisters do you have? (Valerius) Eight. (Tabitha) Eight? (Valerius) What? (Tabitha) I'm just pitying whatever poor males lived in that house with all of you. It must have been truly frightening at least one week out of every month. (Valerius) Was that a joke? (Tabitha) Merely a frightening statement of fact. (Valerius)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Would like to join me? (Astrid) I think I'd look strange in a bikini. (Zarek) Was that a joke? Can it be you made a real joke? (Astrid) Yeah, I must be possessed or something. (Zarek)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Fate was a bitch, but she always had a wicked sense of humor. Today, he was her punch line. Tomorrow, she'd be laughing at them. -Darling's thoughts
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Hey, that's life, flick it off if you can't take a joke.
~ Neil Gaiman
Trust Emmett to find the joke in the destruction of my life.
~ Stephenie Meyer
If a husband expresses a thought alone in the middle of the woods," so the joke goes, "is he still wrong?" Probably so.
~ John F. Carter
Oh dear, oh deary me!" Thorn said in a ridiculous falsetto voice. "What are we going to do? It's twelve big hairy guardsmen and Mahmel in a natty green hat." It was all very well to joke about it, Hal thought, but the situation was serious.
~ John Flanagan
It was a joke, Thorn. That was all. Just a joke." "A joke, my friend? No, I don't think so. A joke is when everyone can have a good laugh together. But when you do something that's spiteful and hurtful and causes misery to someone else, that's not a joke. That's cruelty.
~ John Flanagan
was an old Ranger joke and they all smiled.
~ John Flanagan