Nature never jests.

Jests that give pains are no jests.

— Miguel de Cervantes

“There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion, even by the utterly lost, to whom life…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.”

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

— Anonymous

The jests of the rich are ever successful.

— Oliver Goldsmith

“Some [jests] are becoming to a gentleman, others are not; see that you choose such as become you . Irony better befits a gentleman…

— Aristotle

If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack, You may get a bland smile from these sages; But should it, by chance,…

— W. S. Gilbert

“...life is one big jest at the expense of humanity.”

— Petina Gappah

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…

— Donald Trump, Jr

They's a heap more to God's will than death, disapoint-ment, and like thet. Hit's God's will for us to be good and do good,…

— Olive Ann Burns

Better to wait and yearn, and still to wait, And die at last with unappeased desire, Than live to be the jest of such…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest…

— Aristotle

There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness.

— David Foster Wallace

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

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“Życie przeważnie jest smutne. A zaraz potem się umiera...”

— Janusz Leon Wiśniewski