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Practical Joke Quotes

Oh, I don't know. I prefer to think that when they're at home, the Silent Brothers are much like us. Playing practical jokes in the Silent City, making toasted cheese-"
"I hope they play charades," said Tessa Dryly. "It would seem to take advantage of their natural talents.
- Cassandra Clare

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

It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.
- Rick Riordan

Nobody was perfect. Not even close. And everybody had wrinkles from smiling and squinting and craining their necks. Everybody has marks on their bodies from years of living- a trail of life left on them. Evidence of all the adventures and sleepless nights and practical jokes and heartbreaks that had made them who they are.
- Katherine Center

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

Sometimes I feel that I am destined always to be offstage whenever the main action occurs. That God has made me the victim of some cosmic practical joke, by assigning me little more than a walk-on part in my own life. Or sometimes I feel that my role is simply to be a spectator to other people's stories, and always to wander away at the most important moment, drifiting into the kitchen to make a cup of tea just as the denouement unfolds.
- Jonathan Coe

Elvis was, at least the times I was around him, Elvis was a practical joker. He was always, had some little mischievous something going.
- Jackie Deshannon

When you have a couple hundred people in one huge space, that's gonna lead to jokes and it's a breeding ground for practical jokes and teasing.
- Erin Duffy

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.
- Will Rogers

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.
- Herman Melville

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

I never really was much of a practical jokester or anything.
- Kristanna Loken

I'm a traveling practical joker. That's my line of work.
- Colin Mochrie

In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read and they have been many, big, and heavy I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience.
- Charles Sanders Peirce

Zac Efron is like a brother who's just goofy and crazy. He plays a lot of practical jokes.
- Ashley Tisdale

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