(677 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?”
“I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.”
Will Smith
“You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.”
Bob Hope
“If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?”
Stephen Wright
“The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.”
Will Rogers
“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.”
Robert Frost
“A joke is a very serious thing”
Winston Churchill
“A civil servant doesn't make jokes”
Eugene Ionesco
“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