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Quotes About Joke

Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
~ Charles Bukowski
True, he was thinking about American constitutional law, and he probably meant the remark as a joke.
~ Unknown
People don't always take us seriously," she continued. "People come to HorrorLand and think it's all a big joke. People laugh at the signs around the park. They laugh at the rides and attractions.
~ R.L. Stine
He started to touch the mechanism under the keyboard, then pulled his hand back with a snap. Ah, he said. Must deactivate the security....Turn around, please. What? Turn around, Claire. It's a secure password! You have GOT to be kidding. Why ever would I joke about that? Please turn.
~ Rachel Caine
Does it hurt?" He bent his head and lightly kissed her forehead. "Only when I laugh." "I'll try not to be funny." "Epic fail, beautiful.
~ Rachel Caine
handsome couple. "In other words, we clean up well," Kent joked. "Indeed, you do," I said, and was pleased to know my voice had found itself again.
~ Debbie Macomber
His eyeballs look like he bought them in a joke shop.
~ Denis Johnson
Generally the closest I ever came to wondering about the meaning of it all was to consider that I must be the victim of a joke.
~ Denis Johnson
Chuck said, "Hey. How many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?" Cawley looked over at him. "I'll bite. How many?" "Fish," Chuck said and let loose a bright bark of a laugh.
~ Dennis Lehane
Quanti psichiatri servono per cambiare una lampadina? -Non saprei. Quanti? -Otto. -E perché? -Ah, la smetta di iperanalizzare! Umorismo da strizza cervelli.
~ Dennis Lehane
Children are God's or nature's practical joke on couples—that which is produced by passion then proceeds to nearly kill it.
~ Dennis Prager
In television, there are so many things between you making a joke and the audience seeing it. It's like an assault course.
~ Noel Fielding
The idea that Donald Trump committed an abuse of power by bringing politics into a foreign relationship is a joke. They all do it. Trump is just more open about it.
~ Steve Hilton
I have to drink this much to be as unfunny as you.
~ Patton Oswalt
It's easier, I guess, to laugh and joke and pretend that tomorrow won't be any different from any of the days before. Easier than trying to talk about how strange it is to be part of a family and still be all alone.
~ Ilyasah Shabazz
The future of this nation, with the present generation, You must admit is nothing but a joke
~ Ira Gershwin
Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
~ Ivan Turgenev
Percy wouldn't notice a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing one of Dobby's hats.
~ J. K. Rowling
And it's Gryfindor in possession again, as Johnson takes the Quaffle— Flint alongside her —poke him in the eye, Angelina —it was a joke, professor, it was a joke...
~ J. K. Rowling
Do you have a dungeon down in the basement where you put the bad kids?" I asked. "Actually, the dungeon is on the third floor," Principal Klutz replied. Nobody laughed this time. He quickly told us that he was just making a joke and that he didn't even have a dungeon at all. Principal Klutz must have felt bad that we didn't think his joke was funny, because he invited us all up to the front of the room to touch his bald head. We did, and that
~ Dan Gutman
If we hear a joke so awful that we laugh at how bad it is, we are taking part in the irony; in other words, the joke did not contain irony; irony was provided by our response. Why is it ironic? Because the intent of the joke was to get laughter, and it did—but for the wrong reason.
~ Unknown
They film 'Midsomer Murders' near our village, so we joke that if ever there was a murder we'd call for DCI Barnaby.
~ Tony Hadley
Algorithms diminish public safety in this country. They ask us to pretend that lengthy arrest records and violent crimes don't matter. They ask police to scoop up the bad guys only for the courts to immediately release them. They turn us into a bad joke.
~ John Kennedy
One story was about a deaf man who was driving in the country, when safety bars were lowered across the road at a railroad crossing. The train passed, but the bars weren't raised. Finally, the man went to the stationmaster and wrote him a note: "Please but." That's the punch line. The joke is that the sign for "but" is the index fingers crossed and then opening up, just the way the bars protecting train tracks do.
~ Lou Ann Walker