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"My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself."

Angelou, Maya · Jokes and Jokers · 4 fans >>
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"Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke."

Bierce, Ambrose · Jokes and Jokers · 0 fans >>
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"Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown, and they only want you to make them laugh."

Brice, Fanny · Jokes and Jokers · 3 fans >>
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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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"The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was not worthy of the joke. They have introduced an almost insane individualism into that one form of intercourse which is specially and uproariously communal. They have made even levities into secrets. They have made laughter lonelier than tears."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. · Jokes and Jokers · 0 fans >>
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"Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners."

Cibber, Colley · Jokes and Jokers · 0 fans >>
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"In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before."

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"His hilarity was like a scream from a crevasse."

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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 justifiable homicide."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell · Jokes and Jokers · 0 fans >>
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"I gleaned jests at home from obsolete farces."

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