Language
Thomas Gray
What female heart can gold despise?
Samuel Goldwyn
Any man who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined.
Oliver Goldsmith
The man recovered of the bite,
And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
W. S. Gilbert
For he himself has said it,
An attachment à la Plato for a bashful young potato, or a not too French French bean!
The meaning doesn’t matter if it’s only idle chatter of a transcendental kind.
Something lingering, with boiling oil in it, I fancy.
Here’s a how-de-doo!
Modified rapture!
Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock,
Three little maids from school are we.
The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone,
A wandering minstrel I—
I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pride is something in-conceivable. I can’t help it. I was born sneering.
The House of Peers, throughout the war,
I often think it’s comical
The Law is the true embodiment
Robert Frost
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
T. S. Eliot
O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag—
George Eliot
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
John Dryden
Wit will shine