“The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.”
Henry David Thoreau
“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”
“He jests at scars that never felt a wound”
William Shakespeare
“Never injure a friend, even in jest.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“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
“Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.”
Javan
