I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
The really important kind of freedom involves being able truly to care about other people. — David Foster Copy Share Image
Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there must be something… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest. — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
Sassenach." He had called me that from the first; the Gaelic word for outlander, a stranger. An Englishman. First in jest, then… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest. — Sam Levenson Copy Share Image
Fate does not jest and events are not a matter of chance. There is no existence out of nothing. — Gamal Abdel Nasser Copy Share Image
I really, really love children and I think probably among children is when I feel mostly berated. It's not like I feel… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Heretics are wicked, but they're mighty int'resting. It's jest that they've got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many get the repute of being witty but thereby lose the credit of being sensible. Jest has its little hour, seriousness should… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
I always jest to people, the Oval Office is the kind of place where people stand outside, they're getting ready to come… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of,… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer that your word is your wand. You know how people say things like, 'Oh my gosh, I'm such… — Mariska Hargitay Copy Share Image
The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
