- 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 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 joke is often the hole through which truth whistles.~ Japanese Proverb
- Always tell the truth in the form of a joke.~ Armenian Proverb
- A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
- A poor joke must invent its own laughter.~ Latin Proverb
- Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Do not make jokes that cost more than a ruble.~ Russian Proverb
- Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.~ Will Rogers
- Fashion has become a joke. The designers have forgotten that there are women inside the dresses.~ Coco Chanel
- He that jokes confesses.~ Italian Proverb
- It is a wise man who can laugh at his own jokes.~ Iranian Proverb
- Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man’s joke is always funny.~ Hebrew Proverb
- My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.~ George Bernard Shaw
- The average man is proof enough that a woman can take a joke.~ Author Unknown
- The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow.~ H.G. Wells
- The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.~ Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
- The man who says his wife can’t take a joke forgets that she took him.~ Author Unknown
- The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.~ Ronnie Barker
- The shortest distance between two jokes makes a perfect speech.~ Orlando A. Battista
- Truth often comes out of a joke.~ Japanese Proverb
- You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue — agree with him.~ Edgar Watson Howe
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