A difference of tastes in jokes is a great strain on the affections. (Quote by - George Eliot)

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. (Quote by - Isaac Asimov)

The shortest distance between two jokes makes a perfect speech. (Quote by - Orlando A. Battista)

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow. (Quote by - H. G. Wells)

Even the gods love jokes (Quote by - Plato)

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. (Quote by - Charlie Chaplin)

A humorist tells himself every morning, "I hope it's going to be a rough day." When things are going well, it's much harder to make the right jokes. (Quote by - Alan Coren)

The other day when I was walking through the woods, I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle making shadows of people on a tree. (Quote by - Stephen Wright)

Children always know when company is in the living room - they can hear their mother laughing at their father's jokes (Quote by - Similar)

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. (Quote by - George Orwell)

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me. (Quote by - Robert Frost)

It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes. (Quote by - Thomas Aquinas)

He started hating me, cause I couldn't laugh at his jokes. I just started finding it impossible to laugh at his jokes the way I used to. (Quote by - Beth Henley)

A joke is a very serious thing. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded (Quote by - George Orwell)

I'm not offended by dumb blonde jokes because I know that I'm not dumb. I also know I'm not blonde. (Quote by - Dolly Parton)

If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again. (Quote by - Groucho Marx)

You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that. (Quote by - Abe Burrows)

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)