Quotes About Joke
I'm going to propose that I tell you a joke, Boo, on the condition that afterward you shush and let me sleep.' 'Is it a good one?' 'Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic, and a dyslexic.' 'I give.' 'You get somebody who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.
~ David Foster Wallace
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Absolutely no, no, nothing got recorded or filmed. Reality being camera-free, being the joke I'll again underline.
~ David Foster Wallace
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All of Creation's a farce. Man was born as a joke. In his head his reason is buffeted Like wind-blown smoke. Life is a game. Everyone ridicules everyone else. But he who has the last laugh Laughs longest.
~ William Shakespeare
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We remember the sardonic war-time joke about the optimist and the pessimist. The optimist was the man who did not mind what happened so long as it did not happen to him. The pessimist was the man who lived with the optimist.
~ Winston S. Churchill
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Average intelligence loves blinders, which facilitate an even trot; but a brisker and livelier intelligence desires uncertainty, risk, a play of more deceptive and elusive forces...where one can preserve flight, pride, joke, confession, rapture, play, struggle.
~ Witold Gombrowicz
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It reminds me of that old joke- you know, a guy walks into a psychiatrist's office and says, hey doc, my brother's crazy! He thinks he's a chicken. Then the doc says, why don't you turn him in? Then the guy says, I would but I need the eggs. I guess that's how I feel about relationships. They're totally crazy, irrational, and absurd, but we keep going through it because we need the eggs.
~ Woody Allen
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It's a joke in the zoo business, a weary joke, that the paperwork involved in trading a shrew weighs more than an elephant, that the paperwork involved in trading an elephant weighs more than a whale, and that you must never try to trade a whale, never.
~ Yann Martel
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It's a joke in the zoo business, a weary joke, that the paperwork involved in trading a shrew weighs more than an elephant, that the paperwork involved in trading an elephant weighs more than a whale, and that you must never try to trade a whale, never.
~ Yann Martel
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That, in fact, was the joke that killed him: he was arrested soon after making
~ Clive James
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There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes the whole universe for a vast practical joke.
~ Herman Melville
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In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke.
~ Hermann Hesse
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Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
~ Hermann Hesse
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He was saying that the end of the world wasn't an accident; it was a joke.
~ Holly Black
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It was just like Aleksander to steal even this from him, Gavriel thought. To treat the duel as a joke, to treat him as a joke. Now his only choices were to take aim at a man about to fall over or to bear the shame of crying off. And Aleksander would laugh at him later. I wasn't so very drunk, he would say. And if I was, so what? If you weren't such a milksop, then surely you'd have— Gavriel raised his pistol and shot his brother through the heart.
~ Holly Black
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There was a sort of joke about the four seasons in Maine. They were: almost winter, winter, still winter, and road construction.
~ Unknown
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John-Paul?" TWO If this is a joke," said Tess, "it's not funny.
~ Liane Moriarty
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Yaga de Winter was her own private joke; the old country loved literature a little too well.
~ Lilith Saintcrow
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We all have, in my family, what we call the 'Vorderman bottom' - a sticky out, bigger-than-normal, signature, of the rear variety. It's been a family joke all our lives - even my lovely brother has one. I know the lines to all the good singalong big bum songs.
~ Carol Vorderman
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'Community' is a comedy show, and one of the characters happens to be a Christian. I do think they have been very careful to make sure everyone is the butt of the joke for various reasons.
~ Yvette Nicole Brown
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Venom was a joke in the '80s, their heavy metal music sucked big time, and I really have no interest in them - not then, not now.
~ Varg Vikernes
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I've had times where I've joked, like, 'I'm going to move to Vermont and become a painter.' And sometimes that joke felt like, 'Oh that's a good idea.' But it was only, like, a daydream for a moment to, like, escape.
~ Kate Micucci
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I think it's natural if you're doing a lot of comedy to do a lot of drama, because you have to figure out the real version of the joke.
~ Judy Greer
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Ah ! quelle plaisanterie. Pas besoin de gril : l'enfer, c'est les Autres.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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Not always. Sometimes it's ass," Vince said, cleverly bringing ass back into the conversation one more time. I began to wonder if there was a hidden camera, with a smirking game-show host handing out a prize every time we used the word.
~ Jeff Lindsay
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