Joke Quotes
1327 Joke quotes by 1003 unique authors
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Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned…
— Russell Baker
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Perhaps there can be too much making of cups of tea, I thought, as I watched Miss Statham filling the heavy teapot. Did we really…
— Barbara Pym
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Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they…
— Mario Puzo
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Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes…
— Martin Luther
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I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran on TV, featuring some dragged-out…
— Sarah Dessen
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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a…
— Hermann Hesse
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If I can't joke about imminent death, then I might as well just resign.
— James A. Owen
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If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, 'Kurt is up in heaven now.' That's my favorite joke.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.
— Gregory David Roberts
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They all think any minute I'm going to commit suicide. What a joke. The truth of course is the exact opposite: suicide is the only…
— Walker Percy
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When I told him on the phone that after all you and I would not be getting married, he said "Oh-oh. Do you think you'll…
— Alice Munro
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But if you were Charlotte, and you had been feeling that life was some cosmic joke that had no punchline, and in the space of…
— Anne Ursu
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And there's a cop over there." "What?" the boy said, glancing at the D.C. police officer that stood at the corner of the street, "You…
— Ally Carter
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High school wasn't a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You just had to…
— Scott Westerfeld
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Little fussy Otto, in his red-lined black opera cloak with pockets for all his gear, his shiny black shoes, his carefully cut widow's peak and,…
— Terry Pratchett
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And it's Gryfindor in possession again, as Johnson takes the Quaffle— Flint alongside her —poke him in the eye, Angelina —it was a joke, professor,…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object…
— Jane Austen
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Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world…
— Alan Moore
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Knock Knock. Who's there? The Truth. No joke.
— Stephen Colbert
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Ranger is an unusual name," she managed. "Is it a nickname?" It's a street name," Ranger said. "I was a Ranger in the army." I…
— Janet Evanovich
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