“The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.”
Will Rogers
“I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.”
Mark Twain
“He makes a Foe who makes a jest.”
Benjamin Franklin
“A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.”
“It's only funny till someone gets hurt........then it's hilarious”
Tre Cool
“Mark Twain and I are in the same position. We have put things in such a way as to make people, who would otherwise hang us, believe that we are joking.”
George Bernard Shaw
“My way of joking is telling the truth; that is the funniest joke in the world”