Jokes

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke -

and that the joke is oneself.

-Clifton Fadiman

A joke is a very serious thing.

-Winston Churchill

Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.

-William Hazlitt

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

-George Eliot

The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning

is that it can only mean one thing.

-Ronnie Barker

A joke is an epitaph on an emotion.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

A serious philosophical work could be written

consisting entirely of jokes.

-Ludwig Wittgenstein