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Housekeeping ain't no joke.
Housework
Louisa May Alcott

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Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.
Family
Stella Benson

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

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
Politicians and Politics
Henry Cate

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Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.
Humor
Dick Clark

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

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In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before.
Jokes and Jokers
Frank Dane

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Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.
Modern and Modernism
Terry Eagleton

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

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A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
Humor
George Eliot

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A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
Humor
Fredrich

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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
God
Robert Frost

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Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.
Money
Hebrew Proverb

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You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue -- agree with him.
Agreement
Edgar Watson Howe

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He that jokes confesses.
Confession
Italian Proverb

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.
Humor
Latin Proverb

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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
Books - Reading
Spike Lee

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

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Jokes are grievances.
Jokes and Jokers
Marshall Mcluhan

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Once I have heard the story or joke used twice by other speakers or entertainer, I avoid it.
Speakers and Speaking
Tom Ogden

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

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Even the gods love jokes.
Humor
Plato

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There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.
Humor
J. J. Procter

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
Change
Will Rogers

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I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Government
Will Rogers

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun