Belief Quote by Paul F. Tompkins

As for jokes, I don't think it's necessarily that what I write is funny.

— Peter David

Great use they have, when in the hands Of one like me, who understands, Who understands the time and place, The person, manner, and…

— Charles Churchill

I try to write as serious as possible, and then a joke slips in.

— Jeff Lindsay

Anybody can make jokes. But unless they come from conviction, and there's truth in them, you haven't nailed it. They aren't as funny as…

— Dan Jenkins

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

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

For telling a good and incisive religious joke, you should be praised. For telling a bad one, you should be ridiculed and reviled. The…

— Rowan Atkinson

A joke is a joke or the image of a truth.

— Storm Jameson

In order to be able to write a good joke, you have to find the truth.

— Roseanne Barr

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

“When will someone write from the point of view of a joke, that is to say the way God sees events from above?”

— Flaubert Gustave

A good joke provides tension, and then, release of that tension. You build the tension by saying things that are controversial. The release is…

— Greg Giraldo

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.

— Alfred North Whitehead