To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Better to wait and yearn, and still to wait, And die at last with unappeased desire, Than live to be the jest… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox 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
I say that in jest a little bit, but Donald Trump is a blue collar guy with a balance sheet. That's the… — Donald Trump, Jr Copy Share Image
It is the history of our kindnesses that alone make this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect… — Robert Louis Stevenson 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
“Know, O beloved, that man was not created in jest or at random, but marvellously made and for some great end. Although… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
The one from among the Muslims who recites the Qur'an but in the end finds his way to hell, is considerd to… — Ali ibn Abi Talib 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
Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none, although they give occasion. — George Washington 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
Here's a proposal, offered only partly in jest: no resident of the United States, whether born here or abroad, should get to… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution? — George Will 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
Sweetest love, I do not go, For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter love for me;… — John Donne Copy Share Image
I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have shunned wit steeped in… — Ovid 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
I don't believe that there is a human creature in his senses, arrived to maturity, that at some time or other has… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
The boys throw rocks at the frogs in jest. But the frogs die in earnest. — Bion of Borysthenes Copy Share Image
A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
