If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it…

Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest.

— Sam Levenson

Many a true word is spoken in jest

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Many true words are spoken in jest.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

There's many a true word spoken in jest; scientists are abominably solemn; therefore scientists miss many a true word.

— Anthony Standen

Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.

— William Shakespeare

There's many a true word spoken in jest.

— James Joyce

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

— Joanna Russ

Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none, although they give occasion.

— George Washington

Death is not earnest in the same way the eternal is. To the earnestness of death belongs precisely that remarkable capacity for awakening, that…

— Soren Kierkegaard

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

— Annie Dillard

I don't believe that there is a human creature in his senses, arrived to maturity, that at some time or other has not been…

— Bernard de Mandeville

Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Bion of Borysthenes

Speak not injurious words, neither in jest nor earnest. Scoff at none though they give occasion.

— George Washington

Divinity is not playful. The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensibl e earnest. By a power that is unfathomably secret,…

— Annie Dillard