All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark.

Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

His hilarity was like a scream from a crevasse.

I gleaned jests at home from obsolete farces.

All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a ''joke.''

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

Jokes are grievances.

He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.