Top 1200 Practical Joke Quotes & Sayings - Page 17
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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
The essence of humour is surprise; that is why you laugh when you see a joke in Punch.
I've heard every pie joke in the book. I'm still waiting for an original one.
The future of this nation, with the present generation, You must admit is nothing but a joke
In my deepest parts of sadness, I'm always making a joke or being sarcastic.
A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.
We claim no respectability. There's no status I would not surrender for a joke. So we don't have to defend anything.
Strict seriousness was far more dangerous than any joke.
Just because something makes you smile or laugh ... doesn't mean it's a joke.
The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.'
What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
I never wrote a joke in my life. I just get on stage and let it flow.
It's easy for someone to joke about scars if they've never been cut.
Ten comics can say the same joke, and I'm the one who gets called a thief.
I'm aware that I should end a joke with the good part, I choose not too.
I as an individual can always take a joke on me, big time, there's no doubt on that.
Dick Martin, if you put a gun to his forehead, he couldn't tell you a joke.
I'm more interested to show the darkest places of myself, and I don't joke about it.
You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.
Whenever we're on the red carpet, we look like competition winners. It's a joke.
There aren't plus-sized teens represented in film who aren't made the butt of a joke.
The ultimate test of practical leadership is the realization of intended, real change that meets people's enduring needs.
We feel that what's too far is when you make a joke and somebody gets hurt.
I like to joke with my wife that she's the CEO of... certainly of our household.
If I write a joke, sometimes people will call it a 'lie,' and I'm fascinated with that.
For me, a great joke is an idea expressed in extremely concentrated form.
Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.
The joke I always make about myself is that I'm self-involved, but I'm not vain.
I've always wanted to have a suitcase handcuffed to my wrist. That's not a full joke there! It's filler.
[John Calvin] writes clearly, directly, without artifice, and gets straight to the practical heart of the matter.
Rapping was a joke, but the music helped me break out of my shell.
Humor is when the joke's on you but hits the other fellow first -- before it boomerangs.
When I did 'Spamalot,' the joke was that I was a foot taller than Tim Curry.
I make a joke that I'm the Internet curmudgeon, but 'wary' is a good way to put it.
Sometimes it's hard to tell if a joke is working or not for the first couple of minutes.
Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.
Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
I always joke that I'm a British actress trying to break into Scandinavian TV.
The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me.
You know the old joke, I went to the fights and a hockey game broke out.
There's nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.
The most important thing I have done is to combine something esoteric with a practical issue that affects many people.
I intend to buy 'The New York Times.' Please don't take it as a joke.
I'm grateful for every stupid mistake and dumb joke I tried to make.
Never put a razor inside your nose - even as a joke.
Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke.
We have a marriage of people of various cultures coming together. It's not a joke. It's real.
I would never ever joke, kid, or use cancer as an excuse.
I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy.
Even when I lecture per se, I am a joke comedian, I can do the voices.
I always joke deep down I'm really a teenage girl on the inside.
What if life is just a cosmic joke, like spiders in your underwear.
I mean, this is a joke, to try to implicate me as like a friend of the Russians.
Directing a television episode is no joke, and it's incredibly difficult and especially when you're acting in it as well.
Fashion has become a joke. The designers have forgotten that there are women inside the dresses.
I still love a well-crafted joke. Twitter's been great for that.
I think as a blonde person with make-up on, you're automatically the punchline to the joke.
Beijing residents joke that to get a free smoke all they have to do is open their windows!
I always make a joke: 'Don't look into the future; it's too bright.' That's as positive as I can be.
