Quotes about joke
Santosh Kalwar -
Happiness is a big joke let us laugh at it loud.
Merritt Wever -
I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.
Karl Pilkington -
It's not a joke: I really do like being at home.
Munia Khan -
Laugh until you crynever let your eyes look dryThis is not a matter of jokethis is all to provokeour sense of humourLife is its own consumer!
Initially NO - Err and Grr
Once I knew what I was doingI was there and with itI had the total knowing.I Googled God and orgasmedAt the amount of Gods andMonsters out there posted about.
Maggie Stiefvater - Forever
There is no better taste than this: someone else's laughter in your mouth.
L.H. -
Insurances are like very expensive flat rates, except that you have to live by their rules in hope to get back a small share of your money.
Jack Higgins -
The world was a bad joke dreamed up by the Almighty on an off-day. I've always felt myself that he probably had a hangover that morning.
honeya -
Everyone says "i will never" and "one should never" but, actually, "No one can Resist Miss-using Power (at-least ones) when they have it".
Rick Riordan - The Blood of Olympus
Getting some redecorating ideas?’ Nico asked. ‘Maybe you could do your dining room in mediaeval monk skulls.’ Hades arched an eyebrow. ‘I can never tell when you’re joking.
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
And it's Gryfindor in possession again, as Johnson takes the Quaffle— Flint alongside her —poke him in the eye, Angelina —it was a joke, professor, it was a joke...
Hermann Hesse - Steppenwolf
In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke.
Rick Riordan - The Last Olympian
It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.
Cassandra Clare - City of Bones
Is this Clarissa Fray?" The voice on the other end of the phone sounded familiar, though not immediately identifiable.Clary twirled the phone cord nervously around her finger. "Yeees?""Hi, I'm one of the knife-carrying hooligans you met last night in Pandemonium? I"m afraid I made a bad impression and was hoping you'd give me a chance to make it up to-""SIMON!" Clary held the phone away from her ear as he cracked up laughing. "That is so not funny!""Sure it is. You just don't see the humor.""Jer
Cassandra Clare - City of Bones
Investigation?" Isabelle laughed. "Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names.""Good idea," said Jace. "I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein.
Louis C.K. -
Fuck it... That's really the attitude that keeps a family together, it's not "we love each other", it's just "fuck it, man.
Santosh Kalwar - Quote Me Everyday
I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.
G.K. Chesterton - All Things Considered
The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.
H.L. Mencken -
A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
George Pólya -
I started studying law, but this I could stand just for one semester. I couldn't stand more. Then I studied languages and literature for two years. After two years I passed an examination with the result I have a teaching certificate for Latin and Hungarian for the lower classes of the gymnasium, for kids from 10 to 14. I never made use of this teaching certificate. And then I came to philosophy, physics, and mathematics. In fact, I came to mathematics indirectly. I was really more interested in
H.L. Mencken - Minority Report
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
Charles Bukowski - Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit
I like to prowl ordinary places.I feel sorry for us all or glad for us allcaught alive togetherand awkward in that way.there's nothing better than the jokeof usthe seriousness of usthe dullness of us
David Sedaris - Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays
The combination of ammonia and chloride can be lethal but I've discovered it can work miracles as long as you keep telling yourself, "I want to love, I want to live...
Mark Twain - On Masturbation
The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet together convivially, to laugh, to joke, and tell indelicate stories— and mainly, a yearning to paint pictures.
Gian-Carlo Rota - Indiscrete Thoughts
The apex of mathematical achievement occurs when two or more fields which were thought to be entirely unrelated turn out to be closely intertwined. Mathematicians have never decided whether they should feel excited or upset by such events.
Richelle Mead - Last Sacrifice
Your... Your aura. It's... amazing. It's shining. I mean, it always shines, but today... Well I've never seen anything like it. I didn't expect that after everything that happened.'I shifted around uncomfortably. If I lit up around Dimitri normally, what on earth happened to my aura post-sex?
Santosh Kalwar -
Asia is an entertainment, Europe is a dream, America is an imprisonment and Rest is a nightmare.
Laura Kreitzer - Abyss
I wish the Fallen would just come to us for a change.”Ironically, Fallen Angels dropped from the sky and surrounded us.“I wish I had a chocolate cake!” I exclaimed, staring up.No cake appeared, though I did get a few wry glances. Andrew’s body shook with silent laughter while Lucia gaveme raised eyebrows.“What? It worked for the Fallen Angels.
Jean Ferris -
C: What do you get when a giant sneezes?Out of the way. - Marigold
Ilona Andrews - Magic Strikes
When in doubt, poke the beehive with a stick to see if anything interesting flies out.I clapped my hands. 'I had no idea Pit teams had such pretty cheerleaders. Can you do it again, but with more spirit this time?
David Sedaris - Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays
The trouble with aggressive nonsmokers is that they feel they are doing you a favor by not allowing you to smoke. They seem to think that one day you'll look back and thank them for those precious fifteen seconds they just added to your life. What they don't understand is that those are just fifteen more seconds you can spend hating their guts and plotting revenge.
Sanhita Baruah -
My maid never sweeps under the bed so I asked her to do so today. Found a pen, three pairs of shoes and the man I had lost two years ago.
Teresa Medeiros - A Kiss to Remember
Me mum always told me the rich was blessed, but I thought she was talkin' about gold." She leaned over to cackle in his ear, then actually patted him on the head as if he was some slavering lapdog. "You might have escaped the gallows, lad, but you was already well hung.
Sulari Gentill - Chasing Odysseus
You know, Mac,”Cadmus said still looking out the window. “We may have to work on the way we tell our story …apparently it’s not amusing enough.” “I’ll try to include a joke between ‘he bled to death’and ‘the city burned’.”Machaon responded tersely.
Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed
Please ejaculate", I silently urged the man, "so I can go to sleep". (In this way I imagine I was like millions of women before me
Christopher Hitchens - Hitch-22: A Memoir
An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days. 'My thesis is on the survival of the class system in the United States.' 'Oh really, that's interesting: one didn't think there was a class system in the United States.' 'Nobody does. That's how it survives.
Sanhita Baruah -
Conversation of the Day -He: How do you describe yourself in two words?Me: You don't.
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
Wealth seldom fails to breed the fear of poverty.
Nicholas Eames - Kings of the Wyld
You should write a book," Matrick suggested.Kit snorted. "Who wants to read the self-pitying lamentations of an old revenant?""There's your title right there," said Ganelon.
Jonathan Tropper - How to Talk to a Widower
Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone else's.
Ana Claudia Antunes - ONE HUNDRED ONE WORLD ACCOUNTS in ONE HUNDRED ONE WORD COUNT
What did the mat say to the door? You must be really aDOORable to open up to everyone who knock at you. And I welcome everyone and what do I get? People stepping all over me
Lex Martin - Dearest Clementine
The past, the present, and the future walked into a bar. It was tense.
Nathanael West - Miss Lonelyhearts
As far as he could discover, there were no signs of spring. The decay that covered the surface of the mottled ground was not the kind in which life generates. Last year, he remembered, May had failed to quicken these soiled fields. It had taken all the brutality of July to torture a few green spikes through the exhausted dirt.What the little park needed, even more than he did, was a drink. Neither alcohol nor rain would do. Tomorrow, in his column, he would ask Broken-hearted, Sick-of-it-all, De
Sol Luckman - Snooze: A Story of Awakening
Well, enough of this introspection. It’s depressing, quite frankly.
Tammy Blackwell - Fate Succumbs
I don’t like seeing you hit.”“Well, to be quite honest, I don’t like being hit unless it’s by you.” As soon as it was out of my mouth, I realized what I had said. “That sounded all sorts of wrong.”“Insanely so, actually.”“To be clear,” I said to any overhearing ears, “I hit him back--”“Hard.”“It’s a very give-and-take, non-abuse type hitting situation…”The sides of Liam’s mouth folded up like an accordion. “You should probably stop now.”“I’m trying. My mouth keeps moving of its own accord.
Randy Kagan -
I definitely believe marijuana helps with menstruation. Since I started smoking pot, my girlfriend’s period has become painless for me
Cora Carmack - Faking It
Each one you take is a commitment. If you break that commitment, the gods of alcohol will punish you with a hangover so bad you'll think Satan himself took a dump on you. -Milo
Sarah Dessen -
I didn't pretend to know Eli at all, but even so, I'd noticed that his manner was slightly hard to read. It was something in the way he talked that made it difficult to tell whether he was kidding or serious or what. This bothered me. Or intrigued me. Or both.
Billy Collins - The Apple that Astonished Paris
These days every morning begins like a joke you think you have heard before, but there is no one telling it whom you can stop. One day it's about a cow who walks into a bar, then about a man with a big nose on his honeymoon, then about a kangaroo who walks into a bar. Each one takes up an entire day. The sun looks like a prank Nathanael West is pulling on the world; on the drive to work cars are swinging comically from lane to lane. The houses and lawns belong in cartoons. The hours collapse int
Michelle Hodkin - The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
Thanks. Seriously, you must have better things to do with your life than waste it on the hopeless?''I've already learned Parseltongue. What else is there?''Elvish.
Christopher Hitchens - and War: Journeys and Essays
Sooner or later, all talk among foreigners in Pyongyang turns to one imponderable subject. Do the locals really believe what they are told, and do they truly revere Fat Man and Little Boy? I have been a visiting writer in several authoritarian and totalitarian states, and usually the question answers itself. Someone in a café makes an offhand remark. A piece of ironic graffiti is scrawled in the men's room. Some group at the university issues some improvised leaflet. The glacier begins to melt;
Kate DiCamillo -
This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.
Amelia Mangan - Release
Stanley forced a smile to his lips at the memory of the onesided romance; it was silly, after all, a stupid childhood crush. Who’d fall in love with a fictional character? That was the kind of thing you laughed about as an adult. Or at least Harriet had thought so. He couldn’t quite do it, though. Couldn’t quite see it as a joke. It had felt too real, too raw and wild and fierce, for him todismiss it even now. It was love, of a sort, stunted and unformed as it was. For a time, it had kept him sa
Chanelle Gray - My Heart Be Damned
Hey,” he said. “Hi.” Oh, damn. It was awkward.“What’re you doing?”“Shearing a sheep. It’s cold outside, and I need a new hat.”He paused. “You’re joking, right?”“Yes, Marshall.” I gnawed on my fingers some more and sunk back in my chair.
Joss Whedon -
Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.
Ilona Andrews - Fate's Edge
Jack didn’t fully get Jesus. Audrey tried to explain it, and he could repeat it back to her, word for word, but he still didn’t comprehend most of it. The best he could gather was that Jesus lived long ago, told people to be nice, and they killed him for it. At the end, he asked who was Jesus’ necromancer and if he was in the Bible, then Kaldar couldn’t stop laughing and had to sit down.
Santosh Kalwar -
Time is ticking, and your online twinkling is limited.
Ana Claudia Antunes - ACross Tic
Just when you see a kid selling a mascot,If you don't buy it because he winks, Not only that will be considered a "boycott",Xenophobically, it will also be a jinx!
Gerry Geek - and Brainteasers
More you know, better advice you give. Less you know, more advice you give.
Initially NO - Percipience: Outside the Range of Understood Sense
I saw two birds having dangerously kinky sex on the main road, while several cars ran above them just missing the sparrows’ toss and tumble fly away. The couple survived to try it again next season on a railway line!
Kate Sherwood - Dark Horse
..., and sometimes there's just no point in arguing with him. "Yeah, okay 'me, Jeff, and Evan, sitting in a tree...'"Chris claps his hands triumphantly. "That's right, baby!" Than a more serious expression comes across his face. "But, in a tree? Really? I mean, im a not an expert on the gay sex thing, but I think the first time at least you should be on the ground..." And then the evening continues on as expected.
Michael Grant - Hunger
Look, people, I’m announcing a new rule. It’s going to seem harsh. But it’s necessary.”The word “harsh” got almost everyone’s attention.“We can’t have people sitting around all day playing Wii and watching DVDs. We need people to start working in the fields. So, here’s the thing: everyone age seven or older has to put in three days per week picking fruit or veggies. Then Albert’s going to work with the whole question of freezing stuff that can be frozen, or otherwise preserving stuff.”There was
Deyth Banger -
Humanity it's strange race, if I can say this. There a lot of secrets and stuff which are still mysteries for this race! I know that most people are like the characters the guy near GreenWind, GreenHollyWood, the people like DeYtH are rare. GreenHollywood blocked me on skype because what??? Can't understand a joke, so he can joke with me but I can't???WOW!Just Humanity or most people just stop us from doing the stuff which will make us better.
honeya -
If u want to work in Corporate, then u should know how to play Chess.
Haruki Murakami - 1Q84 BOOK 1
I don't have a thing," Tengo said, "except my soul.""Sounds like a job for Mephistopheles," she said.
Carl Hiaasen - Hoot
Dessert was an over baked chocolate chip cookies the size of a hockey puck and just about as tasty.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
Some kleptomaniacs do not steal things only; they also, while some only, steal lovers.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
Some people are each envious of the person they used to be.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
To increase the chances of a writer trying to kill themselves, cut off their hands.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
Not every single way of saying the right thing is right.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
Some people love but will never marry each other. Some are married to but have never loved and will never love each other.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
We are sometimes hurt mostly or only not by what happened or is happening to us but by being felt sorry for.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
The least we each ought to do for someone who treats us like a king or a queen is to treat them like a prince or a princess.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
Not everyone who condemns masturbation can masturbate.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
Some people would not have remained with their partners, if the unfortunate things that have happened to them had happened to their partners, or if the fortunate things that have happened to their partners had happened to them.
Lisi Harrison - Monster High
Viktor was swinging a leather duffle and wearing a black Adidas tracksuit and his favorite brown UGG slippers with a hole in the toe."Worn and old, just like Viv," he'd say when Frankie made fun of them, and then his wife would swat him on the arm. But Frankie knew he was just joking, because Viveka was the type of woman you wished was in a magazine just so you could stare at her violet-colored eyes and shiny black hair without being called a stalker or a freak.
Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
It's unpleasantly like being drunk." "What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "You ask a glass of water.
Friedrich Schiller - Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua
The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.
Gustave Eiffel -
I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am.
Lisa Kleypas - Tempt Me at Twilight
Damn it. What are we exactly calling a 'masculine problem'? Did he have trouble running the flag up? Or did it fall to half staff?"Do we have to speak about this metaphorically or-""Yes," Leo said firmly."All right. He..." Poppy frowned in concentration as she searched for the right words, "... left me while the flag was still flying.
Marcus Brigstocke -
If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.
Mary Virginia Provines - Bright Heritage
There is a somewhat time-worn joke about people taking up library work because they like to read : the joke consisting of the fact that librarians have so little time to read. But, I tell you, those who do not, and there are some, are in the wrong profession.
M.F. Moonzajer - HATRED AND MADNESS
When I go to the bathrooms, I cannot take off my pants as before; because there is a light continuously blinking like a camera, everyone says it is just an environmental friendly lighting. Well, I cannot really trust it and I am not taking the risk of circulating my naked photos around.
honeya -
Never make a person feel, that he/she is very (extra) special.. Cause, then that person starts feeling that 'You' are not worth him/her.
Gennifer Albin - Altered
What do you have in mind? Rebuild the city?" Eric asks. "Or should we skip to the repopulating part?""Shut up," Jost commands. "You aren't funny.""Why? That's the nice part of getting stuck on a completely forsaken piece of dirt.""You better hope that you find someone to help you do it then, because she's taken. I'm sure there's a nice dog around here somewhere. Maybe you should stick to your own species," Jost says.
Sean Patrick Brennan - The Papal Visitor
Even if it’s a really funny joke, don’t laugh if the devil’s the one telling it!
Santosh Kalwar -
You are where your brain is but not where a front-page headline is.
Vardan Hambardzumyan -
- I'm a Neuroscientist.- What's that? What do you study?- I study your brain!
Ana Claudia Antunes -
If someone loves sweet things and constantly eats angel´s hair tartlets should this be diagnosed as having some sort of heavenly trichotillomania?
Gustav Hasford - The Short-Timers
I tell the squad a joke: "Stop me if you're heard this. There was a Marine of nuts and bolts, half robot--weird but true--whose every move was cut from pain as though from stone. His stoney little hide had been crushed and broken. But he just laughed and said, 'I've been crushed and broken before.' And sure enough, he had the heart of a bear. His heart functioned for weeks after it had been diagnosed by doctors. His heart weighed half a pound. His heart pumped seven hundred thousand gallons of w
M.K. Bhutta -
If a black black cat crosses your path, it suggests that the animal is going somewhere.
Sean Beaudoin - Going Nowhere Faster
You, Stan, are covered with dirt and leaves.''''I just applied for a job as a tree,'' I said. It made so little sense, he didn't even bother responding.
Patrick Rothfuss - The Name of the Wind
Do you know why they call this place the Rookery?" Elodin asked. I shook my head."Because it's where you go if you're a-ravin'." He smiled a wild smile. He laughed a terrible laugh.
Wilhelm - Ostwald
At my urgent request the Curie laboratory, in which radium was discovered a short time ago, was shown to me. The Curies themselves were away travelling. It was a cross between a stable and a potato-cellar, and, if I had not seen the worktable with the chemical apparatus, I would have thought it a practical joke.(Wilhelm Ostwald on seeing the Curie's laboratory facilities.)
James S.A. Corey - Drive
On Mars, the joke went, a man’s hole was his castle where values of castle approached dorm room.
Kevin Focke -
I'm the most famous person, problem is people don't know it yet…
Don Tapscott - and the World
Creating a complete picture of a company financial health, by looking at periodic financial statements, is like turning a hamburger into a cow
Criss Jami - Killosophy
Sometimes you feel as though you've slandered yourself, but the joke's on them.