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«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.»
Author: Max Eastman
(Author, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Jokes
| Keywords:
listener, listeners, nowhere, plausible, play a joke on, play on, sudden, The Listener, The Twist, trick, twist, twisting, twists
«A joke without a point, inane and bald, itself a joke on joking may be called»
«A civil servant doesn't make jokes»
«Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.»
«An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow»
«Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| About:
Jokes
| Keywords:
affections, in jokes, jokes, strain, straining
«Even the gods love jokes»
«A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.»
Author: Robert Frost
| About:
40th birthday,
Birthday,
Diplomacy,
Funny,
Jokes
| Keywords:
birthday, remembers
«A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Affection,
Jokes
| Keywords:
affections, in jokes, jokes, strain, strained, straining
«A joke is a very serious thing»
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