Facts Quote by G.K. Chesterton

“The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“A fraction of what you believe to be the truth always lies behind a joke”

— Deb Apodaca

“The truth is often found in humour.”

— Nick Pollack

“It's true all the time everywhere or it's not true! And that one truth is always Mystery.”

— Richard Rohr

“Unfortunately, ..., all too often a joke tells the truth.”

— Aidan Chambers

“We should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Truth may be mysterious, indeed even paradoxical, but never, never, never contradictory.”

— R.C. Sproul

“Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity,”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

— Melissa Kantor

“Jokes are to be enjoyed, not explained. Folktales are to be inspired by, not verified.”

— Nauman Faridi

“Jokes and folklore and poetic metaphor, the wisdom of folly, tell the secret truth.”

— Norman O. Brown

“Strictly speaking, nothing that’s said is true. (Though one can be the truth, one can’t ever say it.)”

— Susan Sontag