Jest Quote by Friedrich Schiller Download Open image “The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.” — Friedrich Schiller ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Jest Loses
“Humor depends on the teller and hearer of the jest standing in the same place.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
His jest will savour but of shallow wit, When thousands weep, more than did laugh at it. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness. — Horace Copy Share Image
“The things about which we most often jest are generally, on the contrary, the things that worry us but that we do not wish… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
All great humorists are sad... I cannot help seeing beyond the tinsel of humour, and recognising the pitiful basis of jest - the world… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I am usually a fun-loving person, and I say most of the things in a jest. Sometimes I get in trouble, but over a… — Ranveer Singh Copy Share Image
His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“The pun is the dung of the mind which soars. The jest falls, no matter where; and the mind after producing a piece of… — Victor Hugo 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 have all… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist? — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Ah, to that far distant strand Bridge there was not to convey, Not a bark was near at hand, Yet true love soon found… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. — David Foster Wallace 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 a jest… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Better to wait and yearn, and still to wait, And die at last with unappeased desire, Than live to be the jest of such… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
They's a heap more to God's will than death, disapoint-ment, and like thet. Hit's God's will for us to be good and do good,… — Olive Ann Burns Copy Share Image
I say that in jest a little bit, but Donald Trump is a blue collar guy with a balance sheet. That's the way he… — Donald Trump, Jr 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 of kind… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
A prison! heav'ns, I loath the hated name, Famine's metropolis, the sink of shame, A nauseous sepulchre, whose craving womb Hourly inters poor mortals… — Tom Brown, Jr 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 he is… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
The one from among the Muslims who recites the Qur'an but in the end finds his way to hell, is considerd to be among… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
I condemn all statements - made in sincerity or jest - that threaten or suggest the use of violence against the president of the… — Paul Broun Copy Share Image
