Jesting Quotes
14 quotes by 14 authors
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Foolish talking and jesting are not the ways in which Christian cheerfulness should express itself, but rather "giving of thanks" (Eph. 5:4). Religion is the…
— Charles Hodge
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Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Of Love--may God exalt you! -the first part is jesting, and the last part is right earnestness. So majestic are its diverse aspects, they are…
— Ibn Hazm
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Clumsy jesting is no joke.
— Aesop
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I believe I understand anti-Semitism which is a very complex movement. I see it as a Jew, but without hatred or fear. I recognize what…
— Theodor Herzl
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Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect.
— Samuel Johnson
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But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; neither filthiness, nor foolish talking,…
— Paul the Apostle
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Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God.
— Ellen G. White
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A southwest blow on ye and blister you all o'er!' 'The red plague rid you!' 'Toads, beetles, bats, light on you!' 'As wicked dew as…
— Gary D. Schmidt
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Take her to the kitchen,†came the order. “If she lies, throw her in the cauldron." “He was jesting about the cauldron, wasn’t he? You…
— Nalini Singh
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He looked down at his empty glass. "One of the other ways in which I am different from my father," he said. "I am not…
— Sharon Shinn
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What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
— Francis Bacon
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Irony is jesting behind hidden gravity
— John Weiss
Who Wrote These Jesting Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 14 Jesting Quotes as follows: