Quotes about Jokes
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on thee and I'll forgive thy great big one on me.
— Robert Frost
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
What's the difference between beer nuts and deer nuts? Beer nuts are $1.50 and deer nuts are under a buck.
— Anonymous
Three women walk into a pub and say, 'Hooray, we've colonised a male-dominated joke format'
— Bill Bailey
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
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
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
If you didn't believe in objective truth, arguments would be just toys, or games, or jokes.
— Peter Kreeft
You can laugh at anything. It depends on the joke.
— Ricky Gervais
The real issues I don't think most people touch. The Clinton jokes are all about Monica Lewinsky and all that stuff and not about the important things, like the fact that he wouldn't ban landmines.
— Tom Lehrer
I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes.
— John Oliver
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