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Joking Quotes (page 13)

I’m assuming you’re as mystified by this as the rest of us, Rasputin. No. I’m not. I have been planning to destroy the Breakworld since I was a child. (silence) This is why I don’t make so many jokes. I never know when is good. Joss Whedon
E. B. White quote: "A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom-he..."
A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom-he fears a drunken poet may crack a joke that will take hold. E. B. White
Neil Gaiman quote: "Hey, that's life, flick it off if you can't take a joke."
Hey, that's life, flick it off if you can't take a joke. Neil Gaiman
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "The economy is a thoughtless weather system- and nothing more...."
The economy is a thoughtless weather system- and nothing more. Some joke on the people, to give them such a thing Kurt Vonnegut
Laurence Stern quote: "...For every ten jokes - thou hast got an hundred enemies..."
...For every ten jokes - thou hast got an hundred enemies... Laurence Stern
A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be backward, but let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and be spent in that way. And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for. Herman Melville
There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate, so let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late. Bob Dylan
Raoul Vaneigem quote: "The regimes jokingly known as 'democratic' merely humanize..."
The regimes jokingly known as 'democratic' merely humanize castration. Raoul Vaneigem
the lost women I need to know their names those women I would have walked with, jauntily the way men go in groups swinging their arms, and the ones those sweating women whom I would have joined After a hard game to chew the fat what would we have called each other laughing joking into our beer? where are my gangs, my teams, my mislaid sisters? all the women who could have known me, where in the world are their names? Lucille Clifton
If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest, nothing on your bedroom night table but the newest Dan Brown novel, and nothing in your bathroom but Jokes for the John, I’ll chase you down to the end of your driveway and back, screaming ‘Where are your books? You graduated college ten years ago, so how come there are no damn books in your house? Why are you living on the intellectual equivalent of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese? Stephen King
An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought. Mignon McLaughlin
Suzanne Collins quote: "We have to joke about it because the alternative is to be scared"
We have to joke about it because the alternative is to be scared Suzanne Collins
What’s that mean?” Eddie asked. “I hate it when you start up with your Zen Buddhist shit, Roland.” “It means I don’t know,” Roland said. “Who is this man Zen Buddhist? Is he wise like me?” Eddie looked at Roland for a long, long time before deciding the gunslinger was making one of his rare jokes. “Ah, get outta here... Stephen King
if she had ordered me to throw myself down then, I would have done it! If she had said it only as a joke, said it with contempt, spitting on me--even then I would have jumped! Fyodor Dostoevsky
A big, sandy-haired man held his daughter on his shoulders, showing her the Statue of Liberty. I would never know what this statue meant to others, she had always been an ugly joke for me. And the American flag was flying from the top of the ship, above my head. I had seen the French flag drive the French into the most unspeakable frenzies, I had seen the flag which was nominally mine used to dignify the vilest purposes: now I would never, as long as I lived, know what other saw when they saw... James Baldwin

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