Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“She is a rose, Jest. Lovely on the eyes, yes, but such thorns are not to be ignored.” — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Z morderstwem jest jak z życiem; i jedno, i drugie jest nieprzewidywalne.” — Simon Beckett Copy Share Image
There's many a true word spoken in jest; scientists are abominably solemn; therefore scientists miss many a true word. — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness. — Horace Copy Share Image
We make everything funny, you wouldn't believe the things we laugh at. We're always laughing-people think we're completely mad! — Emma Bunton Copy Share Image
We never know we go when we are going- We jest and shut the Door- Fate-following-behind us bolts it- And we accost… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
This world is a vaporous jest at best, Tossed off by the gods in laughter, And a cruel attempt at wit were… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“his jest implies: “Anybody who wants to be a real musician must be able to set even a menu to music.” — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
I'm from New York, I make kind of somewhat maybe lewd, at times - maybe some would say dirty - jokes. But… — Sarah Michelle Gellar Copy Share Image
All great humorists are sad... I cannot help seeing beyond the tinsel of humour, and recognising the pitiful basis of jest -… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
...Having no recourse, I feel back on Shakespeare. Leif would recognize it and understand the context properly. With my remaining few seconds… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
A prison! heav'ns, I loath the hated name, Famine's metropolis, the sink of shame, A nauseous sepulchre, whose craving womb Hourly inters… — Tom Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, Nods, and Becks, and wreathed… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I condemn all statements - made in sincerity or jest - that threaten or suggest the use of violence against the president… — Paul Broun Copy Share Image
Blest be that spot, where cheerful guests retire To pause from toil, and trim their evening fire; Blest that abode, where want… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Hello again,’ she said, shivering in the night air.‘Good eve, fair lady, your forgiveness we implore, to come so brashly tapping, tapping… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
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… — Olive Ann Burns Copy Share Image
O, Times! O, Manners! It is my opinion That you are changing sadly your dominion I mean the reign of manners hath… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Death is not earnest in the same way the eternal is. To the earnestness of death belongs precisely that remarkable capacity for… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow, or when… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Certain streets have an atmosphere of their own, a sort of universal fame and the particular affection of their citizens. One of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
