Quotes of Witticism - somelinesforyou

“ An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce. ”

- Evan Esar

“ Don't make jokes about food. ”

- David Lean

“ Better lose a jest than a friend. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ Where the question is a jest, the fittest answer is a scoff. ”

- Archimedes

“ Of puns it has been said that those most dislike who are least able to utter them. ”

- Edgar Allan Poe

“ I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ Jest not with the two-edged sword of God's word. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ No time to break jests when the heartstrings are about to be broken. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you. ”

- Pamela Hansford Johnson

“ They laughed at Joan of Arc, but she went right ahead and built it anyway. ”

- Gracie Allen

“ I won't mind dying if I can tell St. Peter a joke he hasn't heard. ”

- Red Skelton

“ A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast, and say he wounded you in jest, by way of balm for healing. ”

- William Cowper

“ The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow. ”

- H.G. Wells

“ You gotta be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. ”

- Yogi Berra

“ Things ain't what they used to be and never were. ”

- Will Rogers

“ Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film. ”

- Unknown

“ Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do. ”

- Robert K. Mueller

“ Nothing in this world is at it seems. Except, possibly, porridge. ”

- Stephen Fry

“ Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery. ”

- Christian Nestell Bovee

“ To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief. ”

- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“ Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew. ”

- Ivan Turgenev

“ I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one. ”

- Marilyn Monroe

“ I'm gonna fix that last joke by taking out all the words and adding new ones. ”

- Mitch Hedberg

“ I get just as much of a thrill out of constructing a good sentence that gets a laugh at the end as I do from a joke. ”

- Julian Clary

“ Gentle dullness ever loves a joke. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ A civil servant doesn't make jokes. ”

- Eugene Ionesco

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

- William Hazlitt

“ Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others. ”

- Samuel Richardson

“ I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest. ”

- Marie de France
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