Quotes about Jokes

"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me."
-Robert Frost

"For every ten jokes, thou hast got a hundred enemies."
-Laurence Sterne

"I'm not offended by dumb blonde jokes because I know that I'm not dumb. I also know I'm not blonde."
-Dolly Parton

"A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go."
-Max Eastman

"I went to a fancy french restaurant called "Deja Vu." The headwaiter said, "Don't I know you?""
-Rod Schmidt

"Most jokes state a bitter truth."
-Larry Gelbart

"A joke without a point, inane and bald, itself a joke on joking may be called."
-Menander Of Athens

"People joked that Forster became more renowned with every book he did not write."
-Paul Gray

"Jokes are better than war. Even the most aggressive jokes are better than the least aggressive wars. Even the longest jokes are better than the shortest wars."
-George Mikes

"Don't get me wrong, it's not something that's upsetting me. The jokes keep coming."
-Michael Mayer

"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."
-Will Rogers

"I've always wondered, what am I going to do that's important with these stupid jokes that I tell."
-Ray Romano

"There were jokes because of all those people in the pits with their onions and canisters of beer who could chuck them at you."
-Lynne Burroughs

"She is strong in the floor exercise and the vault. She is always laughing and cracking jokes."
-Jennifer Barrett

"They started cracking jokes, and I said: 'Ain't nothing funny when I have to work the next day.'"
-Bruce White

"Most of that comes from winning. Because when you're losing, you can't make jokes, kid around and give high fives. The winning allows you to do a lot of things. Everybody's loose and playing loose."
-Julio Lugo

"The team jokes that we're a dynasty because they say if the New England Patriots won three out of four and they're a dynasty, then so are we."
-Mark Mears

"A lot quieter. He's always cracking jokes."
-Caitlin Metzler

"The jokes are a little more left-of-center."
-Paul Rudd

"Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful."
-Kurt Vonnegut

"The problem with political jokes is they get elected."
-Henry Cate VII

"I like to crack the jokes now and again, but it's only because I struggle with math."
-Tina Fey

"The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible."
-David M. Ogilvy

"She jokes around with you and listens to your ideas."
-Matt Mckenna

"He's a clown whenever he isn't pitching. He's always cracking jokes."
-Greg Babinecz

"Swedes may have jokes about Finns, but it goes both ways."
-Antti Laaksonen

"Christopher jokes that if we ever have twins, we'd have to name them Dennis and Emily. But I have a different attitude. I don't ever want to hear those names again."
-Barry Murphy

"You never know where the jokes are going. That's what makes it so exciting. It's truly unpredictable."
-Mike Brownstein