
“The gods too are fond of a joke.”
This is actually a quotation of Socrates, as depicted in Cratylus by Plato
Misattributed
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)
“The jokes of the gods are long in the telling.”
Volume 3, Ch. 1
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)
“Living is a pretty grim joke, but a joke just the same.”
A letter to his wife Polly (October 1938) http://bernie.cncfamily.com/sc/excalibur.htm, quoted in Bare-faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard (1987), p. 81 http://www.discord.org/~lippard/bfm/bfm05.htm#81.
Context: Living is a pretty grim joke, but a joke just the same. The entire function of man is to survive. The outermost limit of endeavour is creative work. Anything less is too close to simple survival until death happens along. So I am engaged in striving to maintain equilibrium sufficient to at least realize survival in a way to astound the gods. I turned the thing up so it's up to me to survive in a big way... Foolishly perhaps, but determined none the less, I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed.
“Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.”
Sometimes attributed to Heisenberg, this was actually a statement made by Niels Bohr, as quoted in The Genius of Science: A Portrait Gallery (2000) by Abraham Pais, p. 24
Some things are so serious that one can only joke about them.
Variant without any citation as to author in Denial is not a river in Egypt (1998) by Sandi Bachom, p. 85
Misattributed
“Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.”
As quoted in The Genius of Science: A Portrait Gallery (2000) by Abraham Pais, p. 24
Some things are so serious that one can only joke about them.
Variant without any citation as to author in Denial is not a river in Egypt (1998) by Sandi Bachom, p. 85.
“Thank you. God told me to wear it.
That's a joke.”
Responding to a compliment on his suit from European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso (November 2005) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4421818.stm
2000s, 2005
“Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.”