Joke Quotes - page 2

Guides cannot master the subtleties of the American joke. (Mark Twain)
A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke. View quote
Arthur Miller
Desegregation is a joke. View quote
Nina Simone
High school wasn't a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You just had to provide the laugh track. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
I was at a photo shoot and I was wearing a cross necklace that my mom bought me, and somebody made a joke like, 'Why are you wearing a cross? Like you would be religious,' And then they took it away. I was really affected by that. The whole thing made me realize that I do want [a cross] with me, at all times. View quote
Kate Upton
Some people, they just don't get a joke. View quote
Glenn Frey
People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality. View quote
Henry Reed
I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me. View quote
Nancy Sinatra
I'd come from the bottom of the barrel. Just Owen Hart getting out of the shadow of Bret Hart's little brother. Everyone figured, this is a joke, Owen's going to get squashed. View quote
Owen Hart
If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come behind it with a joke: Hey, I cut you deep, but now let me put a couple of stitches in you. View quote
Wanda Sykes
I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry. (Robert A. Heinlein)
My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke. It caused me to laugh bitterly through the 10,000 nights I spent alone. View quote
Leonard Cohen
And what exactly is a dream, and what exactly is a joke? View quote
Syd Barrett
An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
All I can tell you with certainty is that I, for one, have no self, and that I am unwilling or unable to perpetrate upon myself the joke of a self.... What I have instead is a variety of impersonations I can do, and not only of myself - a troupe of players that I have internalised, a permanent company of actors that I can call upon when a self is required.... I am a theater and nothing more than a theater. View quote
Philip Roth
The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.' View quote
Bruce Dickinson
To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero. View quote
Edmond Rostand
We claim no respectability. There's no status I would not surrender for a joke. So we don't have to defend anything. View quote
Stephen Colbert
I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face. View quote
Hank Aaron
Medicine is a very old joke, but it still goes on. View quote
André Maurois
The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself. (Friedrich Schiller)
Only the saints would joke so about the gods, because it was either joke or scream, and they alone knew it was all the same to the gods. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same. View quote
Ricky Gervais
If I made a joke about just dropping in, would you write me off as a cliche? View quote
Cassandra Clare
It's not a joke: I really do like being at home. View quote
Karl Pilkington