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Quotes About Jokes

I need a woman to have a quirky sense of humor. There's a bunch of jokes I use, and if she doesn't get them, she's probably not for me.
~ Matthew Perry
Do Roman paramedics refer to IV's as '4's'?
~ Steven Wright
If I ever had twins, I'd use one for parts.
~ Steven Wright
If you can't joke about the most horrendous things in the world, what's the point of jokes? What's the point in having humor? Humor is to get us over terrible things.
~ Ricky Gervais
I believe humor nullifies violence.
~ John Wayne
Nothing is as universal as some good scatalogical humor. Even if it means having to be a little silly or cheeky, I think it is worth it.
~ Sarah Kay
It's a basic rule of humor that a joke is always at somebody's expense. Really good jokes, however, tend to be at everyone's expense.
~ Richard Kalvar
A lot of people like cats. Take the Pope, for example: I read recently that he was a cat-oholic!
~ Milton Jones
You have a ready wit. Tell me when it's ready.
~ Henny Youngman
Humor is tragedy plus time.
~ Mark Twain
Humor is like a frog; if you dissect it, it dies.
~ Mark Twain
Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.
~ E. B. White
Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Remember that the wit, humour, and jokes of most mixed companies are local. They thrive in that particular soil, but will not often bear transplanting.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Humor is his defense mechanism, so that would allow me to talk about some serious subjects, but get a lot of hilarious jokes in.
~ Judd Apatow
For doing comedy, a sense of humor is a must!
~ Deepika Padukone
Many true words are spoken in jest.
~ Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
I'd prefer silence and random jokes about the passing billboards and scenery, but I know how he likes music. I just hope he doesn't start singing.
~ C.B. Cook, Twinepathy
All right, I'll wait another two thousand years to make jokes about my evilness.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
My sense of humor often gets me in trouble.
~ Duncan Jones
I have a sense of humor, and sometimes it gets me into trouble.
~ Duncan Jones
I like to crack the jokes now and again, but it's only because I struggle with math.
~ Tina Fey
It's a difficult line to tread, where sometimes you go to the movies or you watch someone do publicity for movies or TV shows, and they do all the jokes that are good in the promotion of it, and you see the movie, and you're like, 'I kind of get it already. I'm not that psyched about it.'
~ Mike Birbiglia
There's a theory with comedy that you shouldn't do anything that's too topical in your specials because people won't be able to watch them in five years. But I look at Trump in the same way I look at Mr. T. I can watch comedy jokes about Mr. T in the '80s and still understand what they're talking about.
~ Jim Jefferies