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Quotes About Joke

Life is a joke and I don't get it, but I'll try to make it.. Since laughter is the only escape from the pain that I feel. Is it sarcasm, or is it real?
~ Unknown
When all the mythologies have been set aside, we can see that, children or no children, the joke of evolution is that it is a teleology without a point, that we, like all animals, are a project that issues in nothing.
~ Maggie Nelson
The things about which we most often jest are generally, on the contrary, the things that worry us but that we do not wish to appear to be worried by, with perhaps a secret hope of the further advantage that the person to whom we are talking, hearing us treat the matter as a joke, will conclude that it is not true.
~ Marcel Proust
of all the seeds that fly about the world, the one with the most solid wings, enabling it to be scattered at the greatest distance from its point of origin, is still a joke.
~ Marcel Proust
Some of the locals have rendered assistance, Weaver said. I'd make a redneck joke but I are one.
~ John Ringo
No, no, I'm just fucking with you. They all lived happily ever after. Seriously.
~ John Scalzi
It is a cosmic joke. Preoccupation with survival has set the stage for extinction.
~ John Steinbeck
Shall I tell you a joke about languages? Abulfaz asked. A joke. Yes, okay. What do you call a Russian who speaks four languages? I don't know. A Zionist. What about a Russian who speaks three languages? I don't know. A spy. And two? ... No? A nationalist. And only one? ... An inter-nationalist.
~ Unknown
The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
My family joke that I'm really a very senior person who accidentally happens to be 11.
~ Adora Svitak
Simple goodbye can make us cry. Simple joke can make us laugh. And...a simple care can make us fall in love.
~ Unknown
My life is a joke.... I'm only here for your amusement.... You'll never see the pain I feel or the tears I cry.... But anyways.... Welcome to the show....
~ Unknown
If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.
~ Gregory David Roberts
I love it when someone's laugh is funnier than the joke.
~ Unknown
Puberty is the sickest joke God plays on us. So you're just noticing members of the sex: Girls girls, ooo. Naturally you want to look your best, and God says No! You will look the worst you've ever looked in your life!
~ Eddie Izzard
When he picked out the [gravesite] plot, my father had joked that he was moving, at last, to the suburbs.
~ Unknown
There was a rumor—a joke? Hard to tell at the DAR—that the fluorescent bulbs were the result of a multimillion-dollar program specially engineered to offer the most hopeless light possible. Cooper didn't know about that, but they did make everyone look two weeks dead.
~ Marcus Sakey
What a joke! Poor little rich girl's fallen in love with the Republic's most famous criminal.
~ Marie Lu
This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.
~ Kate DiCamillo
A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
~ E. B. White
Art once made a cult of beauty. Now we have a cult of ugliness instead. This has made art into an elaborate joke, one which by now has ceased to be funny.
~ Roger Scruton
Guy goes into a bar with a duck under his arm. Bartender says, "Where'd you get the pig?" Guy says, "This is a duck." Bartender says, "I was talking to the duck."
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Nickelback walks into a bar...there's no punchline because ruining music isn't funny.
~ Dave Grohl
What is the difference between astroturf and grass? I don't know, I never smoked astroturf.
~ Tug McGraw