Volume 3, Ch. 1
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)
“Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.”
“My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.”
Act II
Source: 1900s, John Bull's Other Island (1907)
“My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.”
This is actually from Ali's autobiography "The Greatest". However, this was said by Don King to George Foreman.
Misattributed
Nick Ahad (November 19, 2004) "Comedian who delivers some nice lines", Yorkshire Post.
“Vegans tell corny jokes, not cheesy ones.”
"Vegans Tell Corny Jokes, Not Cheesy Ones", in Satya (April–May 2007) http://www.satyamag.com/apr07/hawthorne.html
Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Curse of Chalion (2000), p. 313
“The gods too are fond of a joke.”
This is actually a quotation of Socrates, as depicted in Cratylus by Plato
Misattributed
“Bob: To God, homosexuality is no joke!”
Chick tracts, " Sin City http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/5003/5003_01.asp" (2001)
“Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.”
Source: Steppenwolf (1927), p. 97
Context: You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously. We like joking. Seriousness, young man, is an accident of time. It consists, I don't mind telling you in confidence, in putting too high a value on time. I, too, once put too high a value on time. For that reason I wished to be a hundred years old. In eternity, however, there is no time, you see. Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
