1. Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.-George Eliot
3. It’s hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.-Rick Riordan
4. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous becuse they are in some way truthful.-Kurt Vonnegut
5. God’s jokes are the soul’s curriculum.-John Perry Barlow
6. Jokes are very curious things psychologically.-James Callis
7. For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.-Laurence Sterne
8. You shouldn’t make jokes if it makes you so unhappy.-Lewis Carroll
9. The shortest distance between two jokes makes a perfect speech.-Orlando Aloysius Battista
10. The inside jokes weren’t jokes anymore. They had become stories.-Stephen Chbosky
11. Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.-Gilbert K Chesterton
12. The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.-David M. Ogilvy
13. Jokes have to be quite naked to be understood. They have to be quite simple.-Kurt Vonnegut
14. Even the people who do great jokes, its always coming out of a very real place.-Brett Gelman
15. Life likes jokes; life is constantly making jokes, even at the most inopportune moments.-Elizabeth McCracken
16. Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.-Stella Benson
17. The funniest jokes you know aren’t from comics but relatives, friends – from your life. That’s the funniest stuff.-Dick Gregory
18. Everyone just wants to hear the exact jokes that apply to them and want to – everyone wants a perfectly crafted joke for them.-Brad Williams
19. You can write jokes at any point of the day. Jokes are not that hard to write, or they shouldn’t be when it is literally your job.-John Oliver
20. Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.-Frank Muir
21. Writing your own jokes, you just kind of keep working on something until you think it might work, and then you try it out and hope for the best.-Aziz Ansari
22. Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.-Isaac Asimov
23. The best jokes resonate because they uncover ridiculousness in our daily lives, reveal the silliness – and sometimes sadness – of things we see every day.-Rachel Sklar
24. Jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible.-Penelope Gilliatt
25. 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
26. A lot of the jokes had some build-up to some nasty stuff. But most of it was all character situations leading to what the ultimate payoff would be for that character.-Shawn Wayans
27. Real racist jokes or sexist jokes aren’t funny – not because they’re offensive, but because they’re not true. As soon as a joke is based on an untruth, it’s not funny.-Ricky Gervais
28. Anybody can make jokes. But unless they come from conviction, and there’s truth in them, you haven’t nailed it. They aren’t as funny as they could be, and they don’t make a point.-Dan Jenkins
29. Thinking up jokes is easy. The hard part is trying them out on stage, because you never know if they’re funny until you get there. Not one comedian in the world ever really knows.-Emo Philips
30. Jokes spread around the world and embed themselves in our shared culture; the most resonant of them get lodged in the language in the same way as cliche or old wives’ tales do.-Jimmy Carr