Jocular Quotes

#1. Nor am I greatly moved by jocular inquiries such as, 'Where will you put all the mosquitoes?'
a question to be answered on its own level by pointing out that, if the worst came to worst, a heaven for mosquitoes and a hell for men could very conveniently be combined.

C.S. Lewis

#2. Loose and jocular, Stanley proved to be a master at relating to nightclub audiences

Joel Selvin

#3. He began to speak to me, not in the jocular way of visitors to the menagerie but rather as one speaks to the wind or to the waves crashing on a beach, uttering that which must be said but which must not be heard by anyone.

Daniel Quinn

#4. Men in prayer give greater license to their unlawful desires than if they were telling jocular tales among their equals.

John Calvin

#5. The ultimate self-effacement
is not the pretense of the minimal,
but the jocular considerations of the maximal
in the manner of Wallace Stevens.

Mark Strand

#6. It took Read some twenty years of searching to nail the matter down, but thanks to his efforts we now know that OK first appeared in print in the Boston Morning Post on 23 March 1839, as a jocular abbreviation for 'Oll Korrect'. At

Bill Bryson

#7. Many jocular comments followed, as did another onslaught of Heil Hitlering. You know, it actually makes me wonder if anyone ever lost an eye or injured a hand or wrist with all of that. You'd only need to be facing the wrong way at the wrong time, or stand marginally too close to another person.

Markus Zusak

#8. America, like England and Scotland, had never really been a gay nation. Rather, it had been heavily and noisily jocular, with a substratum of worry and insecurity, in the image of its patron saint, Lincoln of the rollicking stories and tragic heart.

Sinclair Lewis

#9. Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.

Florence King

#10. Because if she isn't angry with him, how can I be?

Ally Condie

#11. Used to be marketing was viewed as the people with crayons and scissors who did creative work. Now it's seen as central to driving growth.

Jim Speros

#12. I had to be at least 8 or 9; I was listening to everything on the radio. You name it, I heard every song.

Tom Araya

#13. Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.

Vladimir Kramnik

#14. I fear that Christians who stand with only one leg upon earth also stand with only one leg in heaven (12 August 1943).

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#15. If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character.

George Bernard Shaw