(639 quotes found)
“New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.”
George Bernard Shaw
“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?”
“The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.”
Will Rogers
“I should stop myself from dying if a good joke or a good idea occurred to me”
Voltaire
“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.”
Robert Frost
“I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.”
Marilyn Monroe
“I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.”
Will Smith
“That's what makes us a great nation. We take the little things serious, and the big ones as a joke.”
“If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?”
Stephen Wright
“A joke is a very serious thing”
Winston Churchill