Joke/rules

Famous quotes containing the words joke and/or rules:

“Never joke at funerals, or during business transactions.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“I invented the colors of the vowels!—A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green—I made rules for the form and movement of each consonant, and, and with instinctive rhythms, I flattered myself that I had created a poetic language accessible, some day, to all the senses.”
—Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891)