"Take a joke" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... little water won't hurt 'em. I've been soaked myself more than once. If they can't take a joke let 'em go," and Tom continued to stalk on until he came to a flat rock, when he suddenly sat down to rest, at the same time putting both hands ...
— The Rover Boys in Alaska - or Lost in the Fields of Ice • Arthur M. Winfield
... his tin pot, which had now nothing in it but salt water. But nothing could ever daunt him, or overcome, for a moment, his habitual good-humor. Regaining his legs, and shaking his fist at the man at the wheel, he rolled below, saying, as he passed, "A man's no sailor, if he can't take a joke.'' The ducking was not the worst of such an affair, for, as there was an allowance of tea, you could get no more from the galley; and though the others would never suffer a man to go without, but would always turn in a little from their own pots to fill up his, yet this was at best ...
— Two Years Before the Mast • Richard Henry Dana
... us!" sneered Hallet. "You thought 'twas as funny as anybody, Zeb Kendrick. Look here, Ros Paine! I thought you was down on them Coltons. We fellers are only havin' a little fun with 'em for bein' so stuck-up and hoggish. Can't you take a joke?" ...
— The Rise of Roscoe Paine • Joseph C. Lincoln
... a mind not to, just to get even with you," said Grandfather Frog, settling himself comfortably, "but I believe I will, to show you that there are some folks who can take a joke without ...
— Mother West Wind 'Why' Stories • Thornton W. Burgess
... the rest. She had been pretty thoroughly spoiled, but her association with the other girls in the Camp Fire had taught her to take a joke when it was aimed at her, unlike most people who are fond of making jokes at the expense of others, and of teasing them. She recognized that she had fairly invited ...
— The Camp Fire Girls on the March - Bessie King's Test of Friendship • Jane L. Stewart
... take a joke, although not much given to making one. He smiled blandly over the edge of ...
— The Settler and the Savage • R.M. Ballantyne
... little. 'Son boy,' I says, 'you certainly are one thoughtful little guy—but can't you take a joke? I talk about passing away, and before I get the words out of my pore exhausted vacant frame you begin to pick out the fun'el director. What's your rush?' I says. 'Can't you ...
— Sundry Accounts • Irvin S. Cobb |
