Practical Joke Sayings

#1. The practical joke is the psychiatry of baseball.

Ron Luciano

#2. I always thought my genitals were the result of some crude practical joke.

Steven Morrissey

#3. Fate is playing a practical joke.

Kendare Blake

#4. Children are God's or nature's practical joke on couples - that which is produced by passion then proceeds to nearly kill it.

Dennis Prager

#5. I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry.

Robert A. Heinlein

#6. Taking the time to polish a pun or fine-tune a practical joke is a way of saying, 'I'm thinking about you and I want to please you.'

Andrew Hudgins

#7. Maybe the universe is a giant practical joke and we don't know the punchline.

John Lloyd

#8. Not that the crew of the Toiletship itself were above a practical joke now and then.

Thomas Pynchon

#9. All of a sudden I felt invisible. Forgotten. Like the universe had played a really mean practical joke on me, even though I've never done anything to deserve it.

Jess Rothenberg

#10. As I remember his laugh, there was nothing mad about it, it was more like the laugh of someone who has been the victim of a practical joke, a farce in which he had believed until suddenly he realized his folly.

Guy Sajer

#11. When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, 'Do you think I'm Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?' After that, they called me Tuna.

Bill Parcells

#12. Mama is funny. She has a great sense of humor and loves a good joke. Loves a practical joke, too.

Reba McEntire

#13. Lying contains the same hostile elements as a practical joke in that the 'victim' ends up looking foolish in his own eyes and laughable in everyone else's.

Sue Grafton

#14. There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.

Herman Melville

#15. Why is war so much like a practical joke? she thinks. Hiding behind bushes, leaping out, with not much difference between Boo! and Bang! except the blood.

Margaret Atwood

#16. A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke.

Joshua Lederberg

#17. by dropping down from above. Why is war so much like a practical joke? she

Margaret Atwood

#18. 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?

Rita Rudner

#19. My whole life is a practical joke. Every evening and every show has really become about entertaining me. I was always like that. And now I've come full circle because that's what the TV show is too.

Howie Mandel

#20. The human race has been set up. Someone, somewhere, is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex. Men need to have sex to feel loved. How do we ever get started.

Billy Connolly

#21. He was not a practical joke nor was he a fool but he was determinedly original and had a vague and modest idea of himself as a legendary figure.

John Cheever

#22. If you think the worst you'll get the worst, but if you think the best ... "
"and then everything will blow up in your face anyway. Don't you get the punchline yet? Its the great cosmic practical joke: Knock knock, who's there? Big kick in the Ass.

Brad Meltzer

#23. hoping that this was some jolly practical joke and that the real chap would shortly jump out from behind a chair and say "Boo!

P.G. Wodehouse

#24. Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.

Russell Baker

#25. We must work harder to build mutual respect, an attitude of tolerance, with forbearance one for another.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#26. I was a young boy. A stock car guy used to live across the street from us. He'd work on his car, and both of my older brothers became gearheads.

Robin Zander

#27. It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.

Rick Riordan

#28. In all political regulations, good cannot be complete, it can only be predominant.

Samuel Johnson

#29. I love practical jokes and humor. That there's frankly no joke that I don't think is funny. I love practical jokes, but I don't like being scared.

Mitt Romney

#30. I love challenging the status quo.

Sara Ramirez

#31. A battle is won by the side that is absolutely determined to win. Why did we lose the battle of Austerlitz? Our casualties were about the same as those of the French, but we had told ourselves early in the day that the battle was lost, so it was lost.

Leo Tolstoy

#32. Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise.

Max Beerbohm

#33. I found I have to stay painting.

Alan Bean