Racism is one of the biggest taboos in our culture, yet most discrimination against Asian-Americans goes largely unnoticed...its blown off by the rest of the media as a joke, as in "Look at them. They get all up in arms over nothing".
Moran Margaret Cho
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
Niels Henrik David Bohr
Housekeeping ain't no joke.
Alcott, Louisa May
You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue -- agree with him.
Edgar Watson Howe
The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.
Theodor Adorno
What is this thing between women, like men are a joke that women all told each other long ago but men never get it.
Orson Scott Card
I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.
James Humes
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
Baltasar Gracian
If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?
Stephen Wright
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded
George Orwell
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
Robert Frost
I should stop myself from dying if a good joke or a good idea occurred to me
Voltaire