I can give two chance cases in which the common or Cockney joke was a much better prophecy than the careful observations of the most cultured observer.

"You ought to be ashamed of yourself," said Gulian sternly, to whom practical jokes were an utter abomination, "and you deserve to be well punished.

Your often-told joke is a bad companion, and gets at last to be as gloomy as a dirge.

Mark Twain?once said that there are eleven original jokes in the worldthat these were known in prehistoric times, and that all jokes since have been but modifications and adaptations from the originals.

By the wholesome tradition of mankind, a joke was a thing meant to amuse men; a joke which did not amuse them was a failure, just as a fire which did not warm them was a failure.

" When a remote cousin of Lord Henniker was elected to the Head Mastership of Rossall, a disappointed competitor said that it was a case of [Greek: eneka tou kuriou]; but a Greek joke is scarcely fair play.

The Season is also a comic paper, and its best joke is its assertion that it is an 'independent critical journal.'

A joke is by its nature a protest against sense.

Each joke was a link in an argument; each sarcasm was a moral lesson.

But as a matter of fact this ultramarine joke of yours is about east.

Selwyn's political jokes were the delight of Bellamy's!

The little joke was quite de bonne guerre and quite appropriate, as the cabinet was tottering and very near its fall.

The vulgar joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.

The joke is no respecter of persons.

Joke with a slave, and he'll soon show his heels, is an excellent Arabian proverb; nor ought we to despise what Horace says,

His jokes often became serious affairs and involved himself as well as friends in trouble, though he never intended anything unpleasant.

The young author was introduced behind the scenes through his father's connection with the theatre, and often played the fool under the stage while others were playing it for him above it, practical jokes being a passion with him which he developed thus early.

Old jokes are dynamometers of mental tension; an old joke tells better among friends travelling than at home,which shows that their minds are in a state of diminished, rather than increased vitality.

The crowning joke of the second Act of 'the Fortune Hunters' is the return at night of Mr. Spruce, an Exchange man, drunk and musical, to the garden-door of his house, when Mrs. Spruce is just taking leave of young Wealthy.

By the wholesome tradition of mankind, a joke was a thing meant to amuse men; a joke which did not amuse them was a failure, just as a fire which did not warm them was a failure.

A joke is a joke, but this horrid beast did not know where to stop, and Jack's first and second visits to the Bonamy hut were quite spoiled by the tyranny of the dog.

A tutor's joke is the utmost wit you ought to bear.

"Or the Whitneys," suggested Adelaide, and both laughed as people laugh when they think the joke, or the best part of it, is a secret between themselves.

Jokes are like trees; their place of birth Best suits them; stuck in foreign earth, They perish in the process.