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| Dagens kris blir morgondagens skämt. | H. G. Wells (1866-1946) |
| De bästa idéerna kommer som skämt. Försäkra dig om att ditt tänkande blir så roligt som möjligt. | David Ogilvy (1911-1999) |
| De flesta skämt innehåller en viss biter sanning. | Larry Gelbart (1928-) |
| Ett skämt är en allvarlig sak. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| Jag har inget emot skämt, men jag vill inte se ut som ett. | Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) |
| Jag känner mig inte kränkt av blondinskäm, för jag vet att jag inte är dum. Jag vet också att jag inte är blondin. | Dolly Parton (1946-) |
| Med vart tionde skämt får du ett hundra fiender. | Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) |
| Problemet med politiska skämt är att de blir valda. | Robert Frost (1874-1963) |
| Även gudarna älskar skämt. | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| People make jokes about my bosoms, why don't they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It's obvious I've got big ones and if people want to assume they're not mine, then let them. | Dolly Parton (1946-) |
| Jokes are better than war. Even the most aggressive jokes are better than the least aggressive wars. Even the longest jokes are better than the shortest wars. | George Mikes (1912-) |
| Most jokes state a bitter truth | Larry Gelbart (1928-) |
| I went to a fancy french restaurant called "Deja Vu." The headwaiter said, "Don't I know you?" | Rod Schmidt |
| Family jokes, through rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive | Stella Benson |
| The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible. | David Ogilvy (1911-1999) |
| I'm not offended by dumb blonde jokes because I know that I'm not dumb. I also know I'm not blonde. | Dolly Parton (1946-) |
| A civil servant doesn't make jokes | Eugène Ionesco (1909-1994) |
| The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded | George Orwell (1903-1950) |
| Gags die, humor doesn't | Jack Benny (1894-1974) |
| 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. | Max Eastman (1883-1969) |
| A joke without a point, inane and bald, itself a joke on joking may be called | Menander of Athens |
| People joked that Forster became more renowned with every book he did not write. | Paul Gray |
| Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me. | Robert Frost (1874-1963) |
| People make jokes about my bosoms, why don't they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It's obvious I've got big ones and if people want to assume they're not mine, then let them. | Dolly Parton (1946-) |
| I went to a fancy french restaurant called "Deja Vu." The headwaiter said, "Don't I know you?" | Rod Schmidt |
| Never risk a joke with someone who is unable to comprehend it | H. G. Wells (1866-1946) |
| Children always know when company is in the living room - they can hear their mother laughing at their father's jokes | T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) |
| A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. | T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) |
| The other day when I was walking through the woods, I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle making shadows of people on a tree. | Stephen Wright (1955-) |
| For every ten jokes, thou hast got a hundred enemies | Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) |
| Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on thee and I'll forgive thy great big one on me. | Robert Frost (1874-1963) |
| Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. | Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) |
| A civil servant doesn't make jokes | Eugène Ionesco (1909-1994) |
| Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. | George Eliot (1819-1880) |
| Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. | George Orwell (1903-1950) |
| What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke? | Gore Vidal (1948-) |
| I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care about. And that's really it. You know, if I really wanted to enact social change… I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change. I am far lazier than that. | Jon Stewart (1962-) |
| 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. | Max Eastman (1883-1969) |
| When I was there I found their jokes, like their roads - very long and not very good, leading to a little tin point of a spire which has been remorselessly obvious for miles without seeming to get any nearer | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| Only Napoleon did more than me. But I'm taller than him. | Silvio Berlusconi (1936-) |