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Quotes about Jokes

If you didn't believe in objective truth, arguments would be just toys, or games, or jokes.
— Peter Kreeft
New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
— George Bernard Shaw
Childhood was the germ of all mistrust. You were cruelly joked upon and then you cruelly joked. You lost the remembrance of pain through inflicting it.
— Graham Greene
I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.
— Alice Walker
The Scripture warns about evil communications that corrupt good manners. Off-color jokes and dirty stories have no place in the Christian life. Thousands of people are engaging in immorality by the way they talk. Keep your talk pure. Ask God to purify your tongue.
— Billy Graham
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on thee and I'll forgive thy great big one on me.
— Robert Frost
Humor must be one of the chief attributes of God. Plants and animals that are distinctly humorous in form and characteristics are God's jokes.
— Mark Twain
A difference of taste in jokes, is a great strain on the affections.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
— Robert Frost
Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity...
— Marilyn Monroe
If you can't joke about the most horrendous things in the world, what's the point of jokes? What's the point in having humor? Humor is to get us over terrible things.
— Ricky Gervais
Tommy Lee Jones is hilarious. I would say, if you look at the body of his work, the character he is most like is the one in 'The Fugitive.' That's how he talks and jokes. That is the type of energy he has.
— Will Smith