Jokes And Jokers

(324 votes)   He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(174 votes)   Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. Where be your jibes now, your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar?

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(165 votes)   If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

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(146 votes)   All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.

Jonathan Swift
1667-1745, Anglo-Irish Satirist

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(139 votes)   My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(131 votes)   'Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears, and art half stung to death by them, thou wilt never be convinced it is so.

Laurence Sterne
1713-1768, British Author

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(131 votes)   His hilarity was like a scream from a crevasse.

Graham Greene
1904-1991, British Novelist

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(130 votes)   I gleaned jests at home from obsolete farces.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(127 votes)   All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark.

Laurence Sterne
1713-1768, British Author

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(127 votes)   Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(112 votes)   Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown, and they only want you to make them laugh.

Fanny Brice
1891-1951, American Entertainer

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(111 votes)   A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

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(109 votes)   The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was not worthy of the joke. They have introduced an almost insane individualism into that one form of intercourse which is specially and uproariously communal. They have made even levities into secrets. They have made laughter lonelier than tears.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(99 votes)   The average man is proof enough that a woman can take a joke.

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