Quotes about Joking

Philosopher, Theologian, Poet, Social Critic

In a theatre it happened that a fire started off stage. The clown came out to tell the audience. They thought it was a joke and applauded. He told them again, and they became still more hilarious. This is the way, I suppose, that the world will be destroyed-amid the universal hilarity of wits and wags who think it is all a joke.

Destroying - Hilarious - Joking - Thinking - Universal - Wit - World

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Jules Verne

Novelist, Poet, Playwright

A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.

Joking - Talk

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George Eliot

Critic, Author, Novelist

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Greatness - Joking - Taste

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C. S. Lewis

Novelist, Scholar, Broadcaster

A Catholic priest, a Jewish rabbi, and a Muslim mullah all walk into a bar, and the bartender says: - What is this, a joke? - Сhurch is the only organization that exists primarily for the benefit of non-members.

Joking - Priest

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Salman Rushdie

Politician, Novelist, Novelist

Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.

Joking - Story - Thinking

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Writer

Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German.

Joking - Man - Problem

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist, Entrepreneur, Publisher, Lecturer

One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.

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C. S. Lewis

Novelist, Scholar, Broadcaster

This is where men, even the trustiest, fail us. Their heart is never so wholly given to any matter but that some trifle of a meal, or a drink, or a sleep, or a joke, or a girl, may come in between them and it, and then (even if you are a queen) you'll get no more good out of them until they've had their way.

Drinking - Food - Giving - Joking - Man - Sleeping

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James Joyce

Writer, Poet, Teacher

What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and in reality not knowing their own minds.

Joking - Knowledge - Mindset - Pretense

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Werner Heisenberg

Educator, Physicist, Physicist

There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.

Atheism - Joking - Religion - Serious

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Plato

Musician, Philosopher, Philosopher

...the Gods too love a joke.

Joking

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George Orwell

Novelist, Essayist, Journalist, Critic

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

Joking - Mentality - Rebelling

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Bertrand Russell

Philosopher, Writer, Activist

My doctor said to me afterwards, 'When you were ill you behaved like a true philosopher. Every time you came to yourself you made a joke.' I never had a compliment that pleased me more.

Doctor - Illness - Joking - Making - Philosophy

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Rajneesh

Guru

These two are the parts. The inner silence - the silence so deep that there is no vibration in your being. You are, but there are no waves. You are just a pool without waves, not a single wave arises. The whole being silent, still. Inside, at the center, silence, and on the periphery, celebration and laughter. And only silence can laugh, because only silence can understand the cosmic joke.

Celebration - Joking - Laughing - Silence - Vibrations - Whole

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C. S. Lewis

Novelist, Scholar, Broadcaster

Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of all that, into something beyond. One has a glimpse of a country where they do not talk of those things, except perhaps as a joke. Every one there is filled full with what we should call goodness as a mirror is filled with light. But they do not call it goodness. They do not call it anything. They are not thinking of it. They are too busy looking at the source from which it comes.

Countries - Good - Joking - Morals

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Robert Frost

Poet

At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.

Hearing - Joking - Judging

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Lewis Carroll

Writer

You shouldn't make jokes if it makes you so unhappy.

Joking

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Ambrose Bierce

Writer, Journalist, Soldier

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.

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Rajneesh

Guru

Life as such has to be taken as a cosmic joke - and then suddenly you relax because there is nothing to be tense about. And in that very relaxation something starts changing in you - a radical change, a transformation - and the small things of life starts having new meaning, new significance. One learns only one thing, how to rejoice in life.

Change - Joking - Life - Rejoice - Relaxing - Significance - Taking - Transformation

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George Orwell

Novelist, Essayist, Journalist, Critic

A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack on morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise.

Joking - Morals - Rebelling - Wishing

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