Joke Quotes

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

You're over there in the corner either thinking about the dead dog or whatever, you're bringing up your personal life and you need the space, and then somebody throws you a joke. Especially if it's an emotional scene, you don't want the joke.

The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.

Lacroix has been fantastic. He's very nice. He gets the joke, and I think that's a good thing.

To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.

I am a super-confident writer, and as a joke writer and as an actress, I'm like, 'I want to go head-to-head with every person.' I am an Indian woman and I'm a kind of double minority in this world.

When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding out what a word means, because it's the punch line to a joke.

I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be something I can use later: a joke, a description, a quote. It's an invaluable aid when it comes to winning arguments. 'That's not what you said on February 3, 1996,' I'll say to someone.

The moment you think of a joke is the best moment.

In fact, it used to be a joke if you studied at a University.

I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.

Some people, they just don't get a joke.

In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.

I'll think of the idea and then I'll write something down, then within that there will be a joke or two which is the original thing which I thought was funny.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom.

I lived that life for real, so to talk about it was like a joke, you know what I mean?

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.

I laughed, even if I was the butt of the joke.

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

I'm infamous, a joke. It doesn't make me feel good, because I'm a genuine person, but I don't let it get to me, because I am who I am.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

My friends always joke that I run on batteries.

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.