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Letter "T" » take a joke
«It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.»
Author: Max Eastman
(Author, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Humor,
Sense of humor
| Keywords:
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«The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.»
«Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?»
Author: Rita Rudner
(Comedian, Writer)
| About:
Funny,
Marriage,
Sex
| Keywords:
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«My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh - anything but work.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Work
| Keywords:
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«It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.»
«New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
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«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?»
«My life has been one great big joke, A dance that's walked, A song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke, When I think about myself.»
Author: Maya Angelou
(Poet)
| Keywords:
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«If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?»
«I should stop myself from dying if a good joke or a good idea occurred to me»
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