“Medicine is a very old joke, but it still goes on.”
Les silences du colonel Bramble (The Silence of Colonel Bramble)
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Ricky Gervais (1961) English comedian, actor, director, producer, musician, writer, and former radio presenter
“Death is an old joke, but it comes like new to everyone.”
Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883) Russian writer
Source: Father and Sons (1862), Ch. 27.
“A joke is a very serious thing.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Sometimes attributed to Winston Churchill, it is in fact a slight misquote of "A joke's a very serious thing" from the 1763 poem "The Ghost" by Charles Churchill.
Misattributed
“A joke's a very serious thing.”
Charles Churchill (satirist) (1731–1764) British poet
Book IV, line 1386
The Ghost (1763)
“There are very few jokes about sociologists.”
Peter L. Berger (1929–2017) Austrian-born American sociologist
Source: Invitation to Sociology (1963), p. 11
“When a tree is very old, yet still lives, sometimes the limbs are strangely twisted.”
Gene Wolfe book The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories
"The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories" (1970), Orbit 7, ed. Damon Knight, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories (1980), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Wolfe Archipelago (1983), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
Fiction
“The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Henry Adams (1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist
Source: Esther: A Novel (1884), Ch. VII
Leonard Mandel (1927–2001) German physicist
as quoted by John Hogan, in Quantum Philosophy, Scientific American (July 1992)