(43 quotes found)
“A lot of truth is said in jest.”
Eminem
“Irony is jesting behind hidden gravity”
John Weiss
“The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh”
Friedrich von Schiller
“Better lose a jest than a friend”
Thomas Fuller
“The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Bitter the jest when satire comes too near truth and leaves a sharp sting behind it”
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
“It is easier to write on money than to obtain it, and those who gain it, jest much at those who only know how to write about it”
Voltaire
“A jest breaks no bones”
Samuel Johnson
“Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.”
Aristotle
“The heavens and the earth and all that is between them, do you think they were created in jest?”
quran
