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
Raillery is more insupportable than wrong; because we have a right to resent injuries, but are ridiculous in being angry at a… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
riley: give me a romantic comedy any day. rhoan: your jest a girly-girl at heart, arent you? riley: takes one to know… — Keri Arthur 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
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
His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Strephon kissed me in the spring, Robin in the fall, But Colin only looked at me, And never kissed at all. Strephon's… — Sara Teasdale 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
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
Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told, and I have squandered my resistance, for a pocket full of… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It is the way of my people to use light words at such times and say less than they mean. We fear… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The raillery which is consistent with good-breeding is a gentle animadversion of some foible, which, while it raises the laugh in the… — Henry Fielding 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
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
The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest. — Annie Dillard 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
