C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Joke (See Jesting)
Jokes are the cayenne of conversation, and the salt of life.
Chatfield.
The next best thing to a very good joke is a very bad one.
J. C. Hare.
And gentle Dullness ever loves a joke.
Pope.
It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.
Sydney Smith.
Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
Junius.