“We never know where we go when we are going, We jest and shut the door; Fate - following behind us -bolts it, And we accost no more”
Emily Dickinson
“The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly and seriously on the subject, is silent”
Henry David Thoreau
“He jests at scars that never felt a wound”
William Shakespeare
“We make everything funny, you wouldn't believe the things we laugh at. We're always laughing-people think we're completely mad!”
Emma Bunton
“Many a true word is spoken in jest”
English Proverb
“Never injure a friend, even in jest.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero