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I'm not offended by all dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb. I also know I'm not blonde

Dolly Parton
 
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An Old Farmer's Advice:

* Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong. *

* Keep skunks and bankers at a distance.*

* Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.*

* A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.*

* Words that soak into your ears are whispered...not yelled.*

* Meanness don't jes' happen overnight.*

* Forgive your enemies. It messes up their heads.*

* Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you.*

* It don't take a very big person to carry a grudge.*

* You cannot unsay a cruel word.*

* Every path has a few puddles.*

* When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.*

* The best sermons are lived, not preached.

* Most of the stuff people worry about ain't never gonna happen anyway.*

* Don't judge folks by their relatives.*

* Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.*

* Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll enjoy it a second time.*

* Don't interfere with somethin' that ain't bothering you none.*

* Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a Rain dance.*

* If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin'.*

* Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.*

* The biggest troublemaker you'll probably ever have to deal with, watches you from the mirror every mornin'.*

* Always drink upstream from the herd.*

* Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.*

* Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin' it back in.*

* If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around.*

* Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply.*

* Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.*

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'Always speak the truth - think before you speak - and write it down afterwards.'
'I'm sure I didn't mean - ' Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen interrupted her impatiently.
'That's just what I complain of!  You should have meant!  What do you suppose is the use of child without any meaning?  Even a joke should have some meaning - and a child's more important than a joke, I hope.

Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898)
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You shouldn't make jokes if it makes you so unhappy.

Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898)
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If you look at the map you're only an inch away!

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Sometimes I wonder if God put you where you are just to laugh at the jokes he created.

Francis Carbajal
 
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A joke is a very serious thing.

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill : British prime minister during World War II, winner of Nobel Prize for literature 1953
Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
 
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I asked a thief to steal me a peach: He turned up his eyes. I asked a lithe lady to lie her down: Holy and meek, she cries. As soon as I went An angel came. He winked at the thief And smiled at the dame- And without one word spoke Had a peach from the tree, And 'twixt earnest and joke Enjoyed the lady.

William Blake : English poet, painter, engraver & mystic
William Blake (1757 - 1827)
Source: Poems from Blake’s Notebook, I Asked a Thief
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I don't know jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

Will Rogers : American humorist & writer
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
Source: 1962 in Saturday Review
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Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Will Rogers : American humorist & writer
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
 
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Campaign finance reform is a joke. The only reason people give politicians money is so they can gain their favor to steal my money. Campaign finance reform wouldn't be needed if politicians quit enriching one group at the expense of another.

Wes Alexander
 
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The problem with political jokes is that they get elected.

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To laugh a bit and joke a bit And grasp a friendly hand; To love a bit and scold a bit And know they'll understand; To tell one's secrets, hopes and fears And share a friendly smile; To have a friend and be a friend Is what makes life worthwhile.

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To give the white-haired father or mother not only respect, but confidence, to tell the joke and the secret to them first, to accord them cordially the central place in the merrymaking, may seem trivial matters, yet they are not trivial to those who, in the twilight of life, begin to think they are useless or forgotten, and to question whether they shall be missed when they shall go out into the nearing night. Courtesy is but a little thing and costs nothing, and if it is due to any one, it is surely due to the aged among us, especially when these are our parents.

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How you speak and the words you use tell much about the image you choose to portray. Use language to build and uplift those around you. Profane, vulgar, or crude language and inappropriate or off-color jokes are offensive to the Lord. Never misuse the name of God or Jesus Christ. The Lord said, "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain" (Ex. 20:7).

Thomas S. Monson (1927 - )
Source: Friend December, 1990, “They Spoke to Us” © by Intellectual Reserve, Inc.Used by permission.
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He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.

Terry Cohen
 
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It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.

Sydney Smith : English clergyman & essayist
Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
Source: Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 15.
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If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?

Steven Wright : Canadian comedian
Steven Wright (1955 - )
 
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Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all by himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.

Sir James Matthew Barrie : Scottish playwright, author of Peter Pan
Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860 - 1937)
Source: What Every Woman Knows
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The amount of energy spent laughing at a joke should be directly proportional to the hierarchical status of the joke teller.

Scott Raymond Adams : American cartoonist, creator of "Dilbert" in 1989
Scott Raymond Adams (1957 - )
Source: Dogbert, in Building a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's Big Book of Business, 1991
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She used to love jokes, painful ones. She loved hurting people. She thought it would lessen the hurt and loneliness she felt, but it never did.

S. T epper
 
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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Robert Lee Frost : American poet, winner of Pulitzer prize in 1923, '30, '36, & '42
Robert Frost
Source: the Clearing, 1962
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The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laugther.

Ralph Waldo Emerson : American transcendentalist philosopher, essayist & lecturer
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
 
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Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he; Full well the busy whisper circling round Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd. Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault; The village all declar'd how much he knew, 'Twas certain he could write and cipher too.

Oliver Goldsmith : British poet, playwright, novelist & man of letters
Oliver Goldsmith (1728 - 1774)
Source: The Deserted Village
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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951)
 
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Housekeeping ain't no joke.

Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888)
 
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Round-heads and wooden-shoes are standing jokes.

Joseph Addison : English writer, statesman, publisher, essayist & poet
Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
Source: Prologue to The Drummer.
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Too many lives go up in smoke - It's nice to laugh but don't be the joke.

Janet Jackson
 
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A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.

J. E. Littlewood (1885 - 1977)
Source: A Mathematician's Miscellany, Methuen and Co. ltd., 1953.
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A sense of relationship and copartnership with God involves the concept of universal brotherhood and that will help to develop intelligent tolerance, open-mindedness, and good-natured optimism. Life is really a battle between fear and faith, pessimism and optimism. Fear and pessimism paralyze men with skepticism and futility. One must have a sense of humor to be an optimist in times like these. And you young women will need a sense of humor if you marry these young men and try to live with them. Golden Kimball once said in a conference, "The Lord Himself must like a joke or he wouldn't have made some of you people." But your good humor must be real, not simulated. Let your smiles come from the heart and they will become contagious. You may see men on the street any day whose laugh is only a frozen grin with nothing in it but teeth. Men without humor tend to forget their source, lose sight of their goal, and with no lubrication in their mental crankshafts, they must drop out of the race. Lincoln said, "Good humor is the oxygen of the soul." And someone paraphrased, "The surly bird catches the germ."

Hugh B. Brown (1883 - 1975)
Source: The Abundant Life, p. 50.
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