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A lot of truth is said in jest.
— Eminem
Love taught me that your honour did but jest.
— Graham Greene
It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.
— Elizabeth I
The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.
— Samuel Johnson
A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man's comfort and inspiration is another's jest and scorn.
— Robert H. Jackson
Now could thou and I rob the thieves and go merrily to London, it would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest forever.
— William Shakespeare
I watch my heart disappearing into her rosebud mouth. My Valentine's jest somehow seems less funny.
— Neil Gaiman
I love thee, as I love the calmOf sweet, star-lighted hours!
I love thee, as I love the balm
Of early jest 'mine flowers. — Eliza Acton
You're jest a-teasin' yourself up to cry. I don' know what's come at you. Our folks ain't never did that. They took what come to 'em dry-eyed.
— John Steinbeck
The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.
— Samuel Johnson
Oh sirs, deal with sin as sin, and speak of heaven and hell as they are, and not as if you were in jest.
— John Flavel
Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest
— Michel De Montaigne
Fate does not jest and events are not a matter of chance. There is no existence out of nothing.
— Gamal Abdel Nasser
A friend must not be injured, even in jest.
— Publilius Syrus
Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
— Samuel Richardson
The Irish always jest even though they jest with tears.
— Katharine Tynan
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[L]ife is one big jest at the expense of humanity. - 'The Mupondawana Dancing Champion — Petina Gappah
Impossible is my specialty."-Marissa Meyer, Heartless — Marissa Meyer
Jest with your equals.
— Bion Of Smyrna
Love is a sacred mystery.To those who love, it remains forever wordless;
But to those who do not love, it may be but a heartless jest. — Khalil Gibran
Sometimes I get so sad that it jest sounds good.
— Abbi Glines
She, that will with kittens jest, Should bear a kitten's joke.
— William Cowper
If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.
— Robert Jordan
Impossible is my specialty.
— Marissa Meyer
One to be a murderer, the other to be martyred, One to be a monarch, the other to go mad.
— Marissa Meyer
All life is a jest, Imhotep - and it is death who laughs last. Do you not hear it at every feast? Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you die.
— Agatha Christie
All our pride is but a jest. None are worst and none are best. Grief and hope and joy and fear Play their pageant everywhere.
— Thomas Campion
He who does not like you will defame you in jest.
— Richard Schickel
Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.
— Robert Lloyd
When you get to be my age, you can stay alive eating very little,' she said. 'Of the finest food possible,' she added half in jest.
— Haruki Murakami
Speak not injurious words, neither in jest nor earnest. Scoff at none though they give occasion.
— George Washington
The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
And her dumplings were so light they would float in the air and you'd have to catch 'em to eat 'em.
— Fannie Flagg
Try to let what is unfair teach you.
— David Foster
Ye know, Cork Courrant-Porky Implant. Tis a jest" Ian
— Kerrelyn Sparks
Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.
— George Bernard Shaw
If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.
— Samuel Johnson
As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.
— Joanna Russ
When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
— George Herbert
He's got one thick book. He's in the middle of Infinite Jest. You ever heard of it?
— Gabrielle Zevin
This is no jest, but life and death, perhaps more.
— Bram Stoker
Raillery is more insupportable than wrong; because we have a right to resent injuries, but are ridiculous in being angry at a jest.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Nature never jests.
— Albrecht Von Haller
This world is a vaporous jest at best, Tossed off by the gods in laughter, And a cruel attempt at wit were it, If nothing better came after.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
In jest, there is truth.
— William Shakespeare
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.
— Marie De France
The secret of a poem, no less than a jest's prosperity, lies in the ear of him that hears it.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest.
— William John Locke
Many a truth is told in jest.
— Jonathan Swift
Some had rather lose their friend then their Jest.
— George Herbert
Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
— Jean De La Bruyere
We never know we go, - when we are goingWe jest and shut the door;
Fate following behind us bolts it,
And we accost no more. — Emily Dickinson
Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,and has wit in it, and instruction too,
if we can but find it out. — Laurence Sterne
But John Chapman told us he didnt eat meat cause he couldnt stand for somethin livin to be killed jest to keep him alive.
— Tracy Chevalier
His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it.
— William Shakespeare
Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.
— James Russell Lowell
Never injure a friend, even in jest.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
I say that in jest a little bit, but Donald Trump is a blue collar guy with a balance sheet. That's the way he likes to have fun.
— Donald Trump Jr.
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[The entire text of Infinite Jest.]
— David Foster Wallace
Riley: give me a romantic comedy any day.rhoan: your jest a girly-girl at heart, arent you?
riley: takes one to know one, bro. — Keri Arthur
The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
— Friedrich Schiller
His jest implies: Anybody who wants to be a real musician must be able to set even a menu to music.
— Stefan Zweig
I do things like get in a taxi and say, The library, and step on it.
— David Foster Wallace
Timid or arrogant, Charming or infuriating, and Catherine was falling, falling, falling.
— Marissa Meyer
Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Sassenach. He had called me that from the first; the Gaelic word for outlander, a stranger. An Englishman. First in jest, then in affection.
— Diana Gabaldon
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear
— William Shakespeare
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
— Henry David Thoreau
I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange -
— Alexandre Dumas
Many true words are spoken in jest.
— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
— Helen Rowland
Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation.
— William Shakespeare
Many a true thing is said in jest.
— Jane Greensmith
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.
— William Shakespeare
Some things are jest too big to fergive.
— Moira Young
Man is a living liea bitter jest Upon himself
a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness. — Amos Bronson Alcott
Many get the repute of being witty but thereby lose the credit of being sensible. Jest has its little hour, seriousness should have all the rest.
— Baltasar Gracian
