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'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.

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Laurence Sterne

WriterBritish1713 · 18th century

4.0 · 45 votes

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A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

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NovelistBritish1903 · 20th century

4.2 · 20 votes · 187 reads

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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

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

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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?

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William Shakespeare

WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

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

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WriterIrish1667 · 17th century

4.7 · 44 votes · 151 reads

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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

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Laurence Sterne

WriterBritish1713 · 18th century

3.0 · 25 votes

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He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

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William Shakespeare

WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

3.6 · 26 votes

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His hilarity was like a scream from a crevasse.

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WriterEnglish1904 · 20th century

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I gleaned jests at home from obsolete farces.

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AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

3.9 · 44 votes

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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.

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Charles Chaplin

AuthorEnglish1889 · 19th century

4.1 · 25 votes · 166 reads

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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
ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century
4.6 · 45 votes · 174 reads
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Jokes are grievances.
Marshall Mcluhan
EducatorCanadian1911 · 20th century
4.2 · 51 votes · 80 reads
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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
George Bernard Shaw
WriterIrish1856 · 19th century
3.2 · 17 votes · 191 reads
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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
WriterIrish1856 · 19th century
3.4 · 32 votes · 88 reads
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The average man is proof enough that a woman can take a joke.
Anonymous
4.4 · 33 votes · 36 reads
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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
WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century
4.7 · 8 votes · 125 reads
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