437 Quotes About Jokes
- Author Douglas Adams
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What's so unpleasant about being drunk?""Ask a glass of water!
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- Author Tamora Pierce
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I've said it before and I'll say it again, my lord. You are an evil man.
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- Author Rachel Maddow
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Sarah Palin uses me as a laugh line in her stump speeches. If you're willing to turn me into a joke, you should also be willing to talk to me.
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- Author John Green
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Tobin," Mom said disapprovingly. She wasn't a particularly funny person. It suited her professionally - I mean, you don't want your cancer surgeon to walk into the examination room and be like, "Guy walks into a bar. Bartender says, 'What'll ya have?' And the guy says, 'Whaddya got?' And the bartender says, 'I don't know what I got, but I know what you got: Stage IV melanoma.
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- Author George Eliot
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Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge as to the relation of their own social and religious life to the history of the people they think themselves witty in insulting? [...] The best thing that can be said of it is, that it is a sign of the intellectual narrowness—in plain English, the stupidity which is still the average mark of our culture.
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- Author Noel Fielding
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I don't really like jokes in a way. I mean gags are fine but I like weird moments where what you have isn't really a joke, just tiny moments.
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- Author John Green
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Where do you come up with these zingers, Clint? Do you own some kind of joke factory in Indonesia where you've got eight-year-olds working ninety hours a week to deliver you that kind of top-quality witticism? There are boy bands with more original material.
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- Author Lorrie Moore
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Nothing is a joke with me. It just all comes out like one.
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- Author Milo Yiannopoulos
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I want people to be allowed to make jokes about, and discuss, anything they want. I don’t think people should be ostracized for doing so.
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