The boys throw rocks at the frogs in jest. But the frogs…

As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.

— Joanna Russ

Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.

— Bion of Borysthenes

“Know, O beloved, that man was not created in jest or at random, but marvellously made and for some great end. Although he is…

— Al-Ghazali

There's many a true word spoken in jest.

— James Joyce

A prison! heav'ns, I loath the hated name, Famine's metropolis, the sink of shame, A nauseous sepulchre, whose craving womb Hourly inters poor mortals…

— Tom Brown, Jr

It is the history of our kindnesses that alone make this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect of kind…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Z morderstwem jest jak z życiem; i jedno, i drugie jest nieprzewidywalne.”

— Simon Beckett

“...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