“Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.”
Oliver Goldsmith
“A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.”
Mark Twain
“Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?”
George Bernard Shaw
“It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself”
Salvador Dalí
“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.”
“My way of joking is telling the truth; that is the funniest joke in the world”
