“Pierwszy z rodu jest przywiazany do drzewa, a ostatniego zjadaja mrowki.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Historia naszego życia, a czasem i śmierci, jest zapisana w kościach.” — Simon Beckett Copy Share Image
The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Speak not injurious words, neither in jest nor earnest. Scoff at none though they give occasion. — George Washington Copy Share Image
“dyscyplinowanie i wymuszanie oportunizmu, dla kogoś pamiętającego komunizm to jest szokujące” — Jadwiga Sztaniskis Copy Share Image
“On jest romantykiem, tak romantykiem. A to bardzo źle... Bardzo źle... Ale i bardzo dobrze.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I often say in jest, 'We haven't changed the world but hopefully we've become an accessory.' — Kenneth Cole Copy Share Image
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
I watch my heart disappearing into her rosebud mouth. My Valentine's jest somehow seems less funny. — Neil Gaiman 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
“Are you an evolutionist? I’m an absurdist, ma’am. But let’s suppose evolution is true; what about the monkeys today? Why can’t we… — Harrison Wheeler 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
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
“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
Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
You ask: What is it that philosophers have called qualitative states? I answer, only half in jest: As Louis Armstrong said when… — Ned Block Copy Share Image
The human animal ... is ... neither male nor female ... And if I am allowed to jest a little in passing,… — Marie de Gournay Copy Share Image
you can't fit the same religion to every man any mo' than you can the same pair of breeches. The big man… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy consideration that there should be several among us so hardened and deluded as to think an oath a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The wood-carver can fashion whatever he will. Yet his products are but toys of the moment, to be glanced at in jest,… — Murasaki Shikibu 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
Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“ Infinite Jest not only says that being human is hard work; it makes us work hard. It not only suggests we… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
[Luke, holding stormtrooper helmet.] Alas, poor stormtrooper, I knew ye not,/ yet have I taken both uniform and life/ From thee. What… — Ian Doescher Copy Share Image