Bad jokes Quote by Banana Yoshimoto

“How do jokes work? The beginning of each good one challenges you to think.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The increasing seriousness of things, then that's the great opportunity of jokes.”

— Henry James

“The best jokes are often only understood by one other person.”

— Barry Humphries

“But very quickly they all became grave again: for, as you know, there is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious.…

— C.S. Lewis

“Life is a joke, even though it is not always funny.”

— Stephan Attia

“Anyone with a sense of humor can see that life is a joke, not a tragedy.”

— George Sheehan

“If you try a joke a second time and nobody laughs, don’t tell a different joke—tell different people.”

— Jarod Kintz

“People never think things that are true are funny.”

— Melissa Kantor

“Get it into your thick head that jokes are just like life. Things that begin badly, end badly. Everything's fine in the middle, it's…

— László Krasznahorkai

“It bears repeating a third time: Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humour does.”

— David Rakoff

“That's how inside jokes usually are. Funny to those inside, annoying as shit to the rest of the world.”

— Siobhan Vivian

“That was *not* a joke, she said in mock disapproval. So you have no business to laugh. It is very sad when people don't…

— D.E. Stevenson