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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.

George Bernard Shaw

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

Robert Frost

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

Hermann Hesse

It would be a joke to film it like some sort of kung fu epic.

John Wooden

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.

Clifton Fadiman

This emergency government in Iron County is now a joke. I am glad we have not had an emergency. We could not handle it.

Jim Clement

I want to forget that at-bat, my first since October. These guys are good. It's no joke here.

Mike Costanzo

We know we'll hear a good joke from you when we meet again someday.

Leonard Johnson

The real offense here was in the producer's decision to add insult to injury by turning a contestant's gender expression into the butt of a joke.

Damon Romine

What's a joke? ... The referendum is non-binding. You object to an ordinance being introduced to make that binding?

John Szabo

I wasn't hurt, I just wanted to create a little drama. No, that's just a joke. Dave clipped me and he hits hard.

Rich Franklin

I joke that we're our own worse enemy.

Chris Weitz

It can't be explained. Either you get it or you don't. It amounts to an inside joke for my readers.

Joe Sullivan

It was a bit of a joke, really. They came in and asked if I wanted to do it and there was a chance to win $10,000, so I said OK.

Ben Windsor

This was just a great big joke on us. He better not show his face here again.

Steve Hunt

He's a big clown, so it makes sense he has trainers who are just a joke.

Floyd Mayweather Sr

I like to say it's a love letter to independent film in the form of a fart joke.

Chris Gore

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

Dick Clark

It certainly is not an excuse, but that was a joke. Letting those fans stand along the baseline was a little excessive, and it wasn't safe.

Gregg Downer

The alienist is not a joke - He finds you cracked, and leaves you broke.

Keith Preston

We kind of fool around and joke around on the court. It keeps us in the game and not at each other's throats.

Sarah Acker

There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.

Werner Karl Heisenberg

I did tell a joke along those lines. It was completely inappropriate.

John Brogden

He started talking about the incident, the DWI, like it was a joke, ... But it's not funny to me.

John Abraham

This is the biggest joke I've ever seen in racing.

Kevin Harvick

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

Dame Edna Everage

I want to date you. You think it's just a joke, but it's not a joke.

Chuck Comeau

It is a joke, an absolute nonsense to even suggest such things.

Ben Thatcher

The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.

Ronnie Barker

I joke that you give up low gas prices for Lent.

Tom Kloza

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

Max Eastman

It could be there for the shock value, or it could be [that the Trojan was distributed by] people who really believe in this thing. It's probably not a joke.

Paul Piccard

I never told a joke in my life.

Andy Kaufman

More than 1,000 adults and countless children visit the show annually. We always joke that a lot of kids come to this show and some of them even bring children.

Bob Brown

If I would compare it to other forms of malicious calls - heavy breathing, joke calls from children - it's very, very small as a proportion but I would imagine that it could grow.

Kelly Moore

The best advice he ever gave me was to keep it real, keep it simple, ... He was a big believer in not having to spell every joke out. You shouldn't have to explain it.

Andy Dick

When I see an American flag flying, it's a joke.

Robert Altman

She knew what she did was wrong that night, ... The problem is, it's not a joke. It's a crime. She's guilty as charged.

Chris Graveline

At one point, he told a Yiddish joke. Only one person in the audience got it.

Michael Harper

I've never even heard of this guy. Believe me, if his name came up, with all the things we did in that case, I would have remembered it. This is the biggest joke ever.

Robert Garrity

The old joke is the index has predicted 12 of the past 10 recessions.

John Crosby

A symphony is no joke.

Johannes Brahms

ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke.

Ambrose Bierce

I told a different disgusting joke with the same setup and a different punch line, ... I'm hoping that's in the DVD.

Harry Shearer

Orlando talking is a big thing and we joke with him about it. Off the court he's shy but on the court he was even more shy at the beginning of the season.

Adam Howard

It's a joke. Relax. ... They're saying it's sacrilegious.

Peter Anastos

I found myself in the South. I got picked up by somebody and made a joke about how dangerous it is to hitchhike with hillbillies. He told me to get out.

Jeff Biggers

You did have the same interest, but you didn't feel like you could really open up, ... You didn't feel like you could joke with people about your own life.

John Muller

It wasn't that big of a deal, and it didn't ruin my life or anything since it was more of a joke, but it just seems so petty of them.

Noah Skube

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.

Terry Eagleton

A joke without a point, inane and bald, itself a joke on joking may be called.

Menander Of Athens

I'm a firm believer in this, you've got to constantly have hope. You have to find the humor in the little things you do. You keep a smile, make a joke here and there. Otherwise, it becomes very, very depressing.

Paul Dimeo

Whether someone thought it was a joke, we take it very seriously. This is a food-tampering issue.

Karen Burk

(The play) was kind of a joke on the middle class and a joke on foreigners.

Lynne Burroughs

When humor is meant to be taken seriously, it's no joke.

Lionel Strachey

I thought they were playing a joke on me. It's been different ever since.

Michael Terpstra

Some people think it's a joke.

Linda Hall

We'll talk about this game, joke about it, and joke about things that happened.

Steve Adelsperger

He's got a big butt, and all the kids joke about it all the time.

Fred Jacobeit

I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.

Jack Handey

We were trying to joke around as much as possible. Well, as much as you could in that . . . eventually it got really not funny.

Steve Jocz

I remember when San Francisco was truly a dynamic city, but it has been reduced to a joke ... .

Jim Donovan

It was awesome. It feels so good. You can tell when someone comes in too cocky. We're not a joke. We proved that.

Carolina Ruiz

It's great playing with those guys. I look up to them. We joke around and are good friends. Having such a good relationship helps us on the court.

Matt Demler

We reached the conclusion that if we didn't change our approach and go after them seriously, they would continue to make a joke out of us.

Yossi Sedbon

The movie starts on a broader level, with black humor. But when you realize the joke is on us, it's not so funny.

John Sayles

The joke I have with Anthony is, I'd like to have him touch the ball 60 times a game. We got him close. But really, he's one of those special guys and we have to get him the ball. We feel really fortunate to have gotten him.

Steve Briggs

That is a joke. You are not going to negotiate with these mortgage companies to reduce those mortgages.

Carol Johnson

It was kind of a joke. Instead of the cheerleader and the lineman, it was the mascot and the lineman.

Jessica Davis

Quite frankly, it's almost a joke, ... It's an opener for discussion, and you're not going to have that discussion before this judge.

Peter Walsh

Oscar people have never gotten the joke.

Tom O'neill

Colin is the sort of name you give your goldfish for a joke.

Colin Firth

When I got the call about the accident, I thought it was a joke, ... I argued with the paramedic who called. These things don't happen at 9:20 in the morning.

Dick Grove

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

Ron Reagan

Bernice is not nice. They have five athletes that can get it. When you look at Grambling, you're more concerned with their inside game. Of course, their big people are no joke.

Hank Thompson

Our joke sitting there was that his drinking less than an ounce would shift to a shot and a beer.

Floyd Ciruli

She's always up for a good joke. She can always make everyone laugh and smile.

Maria Brennan

I was happy with my performance. But I was mad that I gave up that takedown. I hate to give up points. Everybody down here is good. No one's a joke and it will get tougher and tougher as we go.

Donny Clark

He seems happy. You can joke and talk about it. He says he's ready to die. Doesn't seem to bother him.

Timothy Mcveigh

It's just kind of like a joke. But we don't forget it very often.

Allie Pullar

We laugh and joke and kid around. We have a good time.

Isabella Kymer

The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.

Oliver Herford

We always joke around. We've got a good relationship.

Anthony Morelli

There are no criminals in the database. It's you guys. It's a joke.

Larry Pratt

Me and my friend voted for me as a joke.

Brian Barker

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

Martha Gellhorn

It was a joke until they turned us down.

Robin Sutton

We didn't choose the joke because it's filthy! We chose it because of the structure!

Paul Provenza

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott

Is very simple to do.... I start with the joke line and write backward.

Nipsey Russell

A joke in China because by and large they just ignore it.

Liu Kang

The joke was that the only thing he couldn't cook was hamburgers. They were like cement.

Cheryl Wilcox

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

H. G. Wells

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The waitresses are the best I've seen anywhere. They joke and talk with you.

Robert Meltesen

The whole place is a practical joke.

Dave Baldwin

We never intended any major news outlet to take this seriously. It was an April Fool's joke.

Andy Matthews

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

Harper Lee

Great Salt Lake is an ironical joke of nature - water that is itself more desert than a desert.

Dale Morgan

It's a cosmic joke that I'm a lesbian, because I understand men so well but women are a complete mystery to me.

Lea Delaria

Every once in a while, we'll joke around about it. But we all understand one another.

Ben Walker

The therapist is no joke. A lot of what appear to be legal or financial problems are really emotional problems.

Dan Rottenberg

Only sometimes, as a half-joke, I can picture myself jumping, when I don't get sleep.

Janne Ahonen

I always joke with him that skiing moguls is about as close as you can get to football on snow ... because of the impact with the moguls.

Gunnar Brolinson

The idea started as sort of a joke.

Tim Mceachern

What started as a joke between friends grew into an obsession.

Roger Bennett

Policeman's duty is no joke.

John Leech

I really don't know what these clowns have in mind. It's just a joke.

Timothy Butler

When he'd tell you a joke, you'd have to laugh because he was laughing so hard.

Don Madden

The concept of community involvement is a joke.

Linda Archer

I thought the university came through very well, ... I think the comedy is a joke on Tommy and not a joke on the university.

Harvey Perlman

For this hurricane to have come in and for it to affect the market that fast, it's a joke.

Frank White

When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.

Joan Van Ark

It was definitely an institution, a tradition. You never knew where the conversation was going to go. It could be politics, or it could be a dirty joke.

Kathy Lawrence

A real bad, terrible, terrible, terrible joke.

Mikael Samuelsson

A lot of the comedians don't even tell the joke. Like only three tell the joke, the rest of them dissect it.

Bob Saget

It was like, here comes a joke. Here's the joke. I just told a joke!

Fred Armisen

We're just good friends. We joke around here in the clubhouse, but if we see each other outside, we're friends. We joke, try to have fun.

Jose Reyes

It was an awful environment, because you have two teams that are neutral [from] over 400 miles away. It was a joke.

Mike Rhoades

My family would tell me when I had too much on. They would joke with me about it.

Arturo Chavez

Yeah, we did it (the chant). Ice cream is kind of an inside joke for our team. But this was not a day for ice cream. Not at all.

Colleen Biebel

Everyone's in on the joke as it were.

Shawn Michaels

So they really think... serious criticism of evolution is a joke.

Kathy Martin

He is using this as a joke. This is an insult coming from him. Why he chose to focus on the Black Caucus, I have no idea other than he is crazy and a racist.

Larry Miller

The comparison of subways and sandwiches is a bit of an old joke for us now.

Charlotte Cooper

We don't see the joke in wearing these helmets and think they are in bad taste. A lot is possible in Holland, but we will not accept everything.

Frank Huizinga

We always joke he has the warmest room in the house with that extra layer of insulation on the wall.

Dan Stumpe

You get to talk to people and joke around.

Jim Byrnes

He made a joke out of everything and took things as they came.

Joseph Williams

The purveyors of state bankruptcy are at it again. This isn't a plan. This is a joke.

Charles Schalliol

It was no joke for him. This was something he worked on for a long, long time.

Lincoln Castellanos

One weekend I was bored and as a sort of a joke I made this Web site.

Philip Kaplan

He would walk up to you if you were sad and make you joke and laugh.

Michelle Yazzie

I always joke with (father) Les and his wife, asking them if they can kick out a couple more sons for us.

Chris West

We joke about it but we're fine at six. That's what we agreed on and that's the deal.

Pat Finelli

With a practical joke, you do one of two things. You convince people that something exists when it doesn't, or you convince people that something doesn't exist when it does.

Chris Lamb

The joke version very quickly turned into a serious version.

Darryl Silver

When (a joke) makes light of something that's holy to you, that's too far for me.

Paula Austin

She was gorgeous and very, very funny - not just joke funny. She was a genuine eccentric.

Barry Cryer

The biggest joke I've ever seen in racing ... It's pretty disgusting, and pretty embarrassing for our sport.

Kevin Harvick

We laugh and we joke, but it's a huge fear in our minds.

Julie Jameson

Ridiculous, a joke taken too far.

Mahesh Bhatt

You get him away from the field and he liked to socialize, laugh and joke, ... John was very friendly, easy to approach.

Raymond Berry

We have to joke to keep from crying.

Anita Whirley

There's two things I used to do to prep. I would drink a lot of coffee before every game. And that is not a joke.

Julian Mancias

I think it's fun. You get to joke around with the teacher and talk to your friends. You learn a lot of things, but it's in a fun way.

Charlie Rogers

He's not aloof at all. He likes to laugh and joke. There is not an aura of 'I'm better.' He is a concerned teammate.

Bob Lieber

He gets everybody going and ready. He loves to joke around, but when it comes to hockey he's very serious.

Chris Moser

We laugh a lot. I joke around with them. It eases the tension.

Bill Lutz

I'm going to relax for a while. My joke is that I'm going to help my wife enhance her career. I have a few plans, but ... things will evolve as they will evolve.

Bob Bourne

The joke is that these stocks trade at 10 times news flow.

Ethan Mcafee

We always joke around when he comes back from school about how I'm doing and if I'm catching up. That always keeps me going.

Ethan Freeman

It becomes almost a social catalyst. Giving [consumers] something that is an inside joke is an essential ingredient.

Elie Dekel