Churchill Charles 1731-1764
The Ghost
A joke's a very serious thing.
Conrad Joseph 1857-1924
Caricature: putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.
Frost Robert 1874-1963
At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there
with his question; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.
Gilbert W.S. 1836-1911
The Mikado
Life is a joke that's just begun.
Nietzsche Friedrich 1844-1900
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
Pope Alexander 1688-1744
The Dunciad
Gentle Dullness ever loves a joke.
PROCTER J.J.
There are things of deadly earnest that can only be
safely mentioned under cover of a joke.
Smith Sydney 1771-1845
It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.
Frost Robert 1874-1963
„Cluster of Faith"
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
Goldsmith Oliver 1730-1774
The Deserted Village
A man severe he was, and stern to view;
I knew him well, and every truant knew;
Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace
The day's disasters in his morning face;
Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee,
At all his jokes, for many a joke had he.
Proverbs and Sayings
Italian
He that jokes confesses.