A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
Joseph Conrad

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
George Orwell

A joke is a very serious thing.
Winston Churchill

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
Max Eastman

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.
Max Eastman

A rich man's joke is always funny.
Thomas Edward Brown

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
Clifton Paul Fadiman

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
Clifton Fadiman

A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke.
Joshua Lederberg

A symphony is no joke.
Johannes Brahms

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
Jessamyn West

A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.
Wanda Sykes

Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do - sing, dance, joke about - then they take that as love.
Gene Wilder

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
Baltasar Gracian

All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way.
Sammy Hagar

Almost every venerable tradition at a men's club starts out as a joke.
Joe Bob Briggs

Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke.
Alan Dundes

And I liked pluralist Australia. I got a taste for pluralist Australia. I like, I like Australians and I can't believe that they're going to go to hell because they tell a good dirty joke, you know.
Thomas Keneally

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
Gloria Steinem