Jest Quotes

109 Jest quotes by 89 unique authors

Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error… — Pope Francis
Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest. — Javan
We never know we go when we are going- We jest and shut the Door- Fate-following-behind us bolts it- And we accost no more-. — Emily Dickinson
Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the unsuitable, the obligatory… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness. — Amos Bronson Alcott
In France everything is a matter for jest. People make quips about the scaffold, about Napoleon's defeat on the banks of The Beresina, and about… — Honore de Balzac
Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest. — William John Locke
A lot of truth is said in jest. — Eminem
When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow… — Rudyard Kipling
If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Here's a proposal, offered only partly in jest: no resident of the United States, whether born here or abroad, should get to be a citizen… — Eric Liu
Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification. — Helen Rowland
The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh. — Friedrich Schiller
To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest. — Henry David Thoreau
As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest. — Joanna Russ
Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest. — Sam Levenson
Life is a jest of the Gods and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh… or else you'll weep yourself to death. — Bernard Cornwell
Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your… — Robert Jordan
His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it. — William Shakespeare
The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will… — Victor Hugo
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand… — William Shakespeare
Stephen kissed me in the spring, Robin in the fall, But Colin only looked at me And never kissed at all. Stephen’s kiss was lost… — Sara Teasdale

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