Joke Quotes

Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.

You know when Jerry Ford gets the best joke, you know you're in trouble.

Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.

My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller of long stories, that was my brother Ed. As a child, I just absorbed everything they said, and I was always in competition for the laughs.

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.

I cannot tell a joke. But I can do a situation, that it becomes a joke.

People always joke that "dog" spells "god" backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down to see just how well they do, what kind of people they are. The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.

Once an actor told me he went to the Shakespeare School of Acting, and I said, 'I went to the Shakespeare of Acting, too' and he said, 'Oh really?' And I said, 'I went to Shakespeare Elementary School in Chicago.' He didn't take the joke well, he didn't laugh and didn't think it was funny - I thought it was funny. It's all the same to me.

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.

I mean, I've had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like pointing out some sort of logic error or something that I've never even thought about, and they're right.

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.