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You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple. - Ernest Hemingway


I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't. - Dylan Thomas


A man must serve his time to every trade Save censure, critics all are ready made. Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote, With just enough of learning to misquote; A mind well skill'd to find or forge a fault; A turn for punning, call it Attic salt; To Jeffrey go, be silent and discreet, His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet; Fear not to lie, 'twill seem a lucky hit; Shrink not from blasphemy, 'twill pass for wit; Care not for feeling, pass your proper jest, And stand a critic, hated yet caress'd. - Lord Byron


Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. - George Eliot


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


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


The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda. - Heywood Campbell Broun


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


They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure. - Ernest Hemingway

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