Joke Quotes

What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come behind it with a joke: Hey, I cut you deep, but now let me put a couple of stitches in you.

I like to joke that if I had a dollar for everybody who slapped me on the back and said, 'Hey Jeb, you're all set,' I'd be retired now.

If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?

I don't really know what is shocking. When you tell the story of a man who is beheaded, you have to show how they cut off his head. If you don't, it's like telling a dirty joke and leaving out the punch line.

You learn to kid around and joke and not take things too seriously because somehow its all gonna work out for the best - or you're gonna make it work out.

If you keep up with pop culture, everybody knows the joke.

Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.

Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this nation's involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.