Joke Quotes
1327 quotes by 1003 authors
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You know what they're doing to your Constitution? They're making a joke out of your Constitution. Love's not in your court room. And God is…
— Charles Manson
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I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should be a joke…
— Jenny Holzer
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Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life, and people do not wish to waste their lives once…
— Ed Koch
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A nickname may be the best record of a success. That's what I call putting the face of a joke upon the body of a…
— Joseph Conrad
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The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke…
— Thomas a Kempis
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I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me and joke at me because I was…
— Patrick Ewing
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The real joke that history played on American women is not the one that makes people snigger, with cheap Freudian sophistication, at the dead feminists.…
— Betty Friedan
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What people who don't write don't understand is that they think you make up the line consciously — but you don't. It proceeds from your…
— Woody Allen
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
— Brendan Behan
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Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.
— Berkeley Breathed
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I get a great laugh from artists who ridicule the critics as parasites and artists manqués — sucha horrible joke. I can’t imagine a more…
— Manny Farber
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The joke is that U2's new record only looked like a virus. Enjoy mining bitcoins for me losers.
— Thom Yorke
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Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
— Ivan Turgenev
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I often fake my death and then just show up at people's houses. They say 'that's a good one Thom' but I know maybe they…
— Thom Yorke
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A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
— Arthur Miller
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AÂ form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the greatest one -…
— Siegbert Tarrasch
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Whether people grow fat by joking, or whether there is something in fat itself which predisposes to a joke, I have never been quite able…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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It was a bit of fun. But of course like anything that starts as a joke, people started to take it all seriously!
— Steven Wilson
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For the amount of talent I had (and I couldn't dance, act, or tell a joke) I enjoyed a tremendous career.
— Perry Como
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But you do have to learn, if you want to be a satirist, you can't be part of the party. Meaning, you can't go horseback…
— Joan Rivers
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