Fool Quote by Charles Churchill

There are practical things which contribute to a joke's funniness. People will find a joke funnier if they are sitting closer together, if it's…

— Ben Miller

If written with enough care and thoughtfulness, a joke can make you laugh at a belief you hold dear.

— Paul F. Tompkins

I think a joke is a form of truth-telling. A good joke that's absurd contains elements of our daily darkness and also a possibility…

— Colson Whitehead

I don't see much point in doing things for a pure joke. Every now and then you need a joke, but not so much…

— A. S. Byatt

Jokes are one of the things that bind the culture. If you can't have jokes about everybody in society and if one group is…

— Mark Steyn

Jokes are a lot about meaning. I think if we understand what jokes mean and why they work, we'd understand everything else. Genuinely I…

— John Lloyd

As a person is so must you humor them.

— Anonymous

I'm very self-deprecating, so I'm not afraid to make jokes at my own expense, and I've just found that makes people a little more…

— Franchesca Ramsey

Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject.

— Ted Danson

Writers are encouraged to "keep 'em laughing" and complain "with good humor" in order to "win" allies. The joke is always on ourselves.

— Alice Childress

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before.

— Frank Dane