“It would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest for ever.”
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
“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”
“Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.”
Javan
“Many a true word is spoken in jest”
English Proverb
“War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley