(42 quotes found)
“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
“The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.”
“Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.”
Bette Davis
“Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.”
Javan
“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
“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
“War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Never injure a friend, even in jest.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Many a true word is spoken in jest”
English Proverb
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