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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

The essence of obscenity is the turning of the inner mystery into a jest. — Fulton J. Sheen

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 calm
Of 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

Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest. — Quintilian

Man's life is but a jest,
A dream, a shadow, bubble, air, a vapor at the best. — George Walter

The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest. — Annie Dillard

Fate does not jest and events are not a matter of chance. There is no existence out of nothing. — Gamal Abdel Nasser

Bees are not as busy as we think they are. They jest can't buzz any slower. — Kin Hubbard

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

[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

A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it. — Tacitus

Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it. — Bette Davis

Sometimes I get so sad that it jest sounds good. — Abbi Glines

Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest. — Javan

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

My Own Epitaph
Life's a jest, and all things show it.
I thought so once, and now I know it. — John Gay

Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution? — George Will

O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple. — William Shakespeare

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest. — Plautus

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

One to be a murderer. One to be a Martyr. One to be a Monarch. One to go Mad — Marissa Meyer

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

The boys throw rocks at the frogs in jest. But the frogs die in earnest. — Wilfred Bion

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

His Chosen Ones. What a lie. They're slaves too. You jest cain't see their chains. — Moira Young

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 going
We jest and shut the door;
Fate following behind us bolts it,
And we accost no more. — Emily Dickinson

A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness. — Horace

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

Heaven to me's a fair blue stretch of sky, Earth's jest a dusty road. — John Masefield

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.

[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

Some say it is better to have eaten and lost than never to have eaten at all. — Marissa Meyer

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

Well, we all gotta die. You jest gotta hope you die good. — Moira Young

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 lie
a 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

I'm from New York, I make kind of somewhat maybe lewd, at times - maybe some would say dirty - jokes. But in jest. — Sarah Michelle Gellar

I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory. — L.M. Montgomery