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Jokes

«A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.»
«A joke without a point, inane and bald, itself a joke on joking may be called»
Author: Menander of Athens (Dramatist, Poet) | About: Jokes | Keywords: bald, inane, joke, joking
«A civil servant doesn't make jokes»
Author: Eugene Ionesco | About: Jokes | Keywords: civil servant, civil servants
«Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.»
«An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow»
«Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | About: Jokes | Keywords: affections, in jokes, jokes, strain, straining
«Even the gods love jokes»
Author: Plato (Philosopher) | About: Humor, Jokes | Keywords: jokes, the gods
«A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.»
«A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.»
«A joke is a very serious thing»
Author: Winston Churchill (Author, Orator, Prime Minister) | About: Jokes | Keywords: joke, serious

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