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Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a ''joke.''

» Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American newspaperman and short-story writer

I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

» Charles Chaplin (1889-1977) English author

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

» Georg C. Lichtenberg (1742-1799) German scientist, satirist and anglophile

Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

» George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish playwright, critic, political activist

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

» George Orwell (1903-1950) British novelist, essayist, and critic [George Orwell is his pen name]

All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.

» Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Anglo-Irish satirist

All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we

» Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) British writer

Jokes are grievances.

» Marshall Mcluhan (1911-1980) Canadian communications theorist and educator

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiab

» Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Irish writer, poet, and physician [Novel:'The Vicar of Wakefield']

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. Where be your jibes now, your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar?

» William Penn (1644-1718) British religious leader

He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

» William Penn (1644-1718) British religious leader

The average man is proof enough that a woman can take a joke.

» Anonymous (-)

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

» George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish playwright, critic, political activist

His hilarity was like a scream from a crevasse.

» Graham Greene (1904-1991) English writer

'Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears, and art half stung to death by them, thou wilt never be convinced it is so.

» Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) British writer

I gleaned jests at home from obsolete farces.

» Samuel Butler (1835-1902) Novelist, iconoclastic Victorian-era English author

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