Joke Man

Famous quotes containing the words joke and/or man:

“We used chamber-pots a good deal.... My mother ... loved to repeat: “When did the queen reign over China?” This whimsical and harmless scatological pun was my first introduction to the wonderful world of verbal transformations, and also a first perception that a joke need not be funny to give pleasure.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)

“Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.”
—Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)