Jest Quote by George Herbert Download Open image “Some had rather lose their friend then their Jest.” — George Herbert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Jest Loses
You lose nothing when you lose a fake friend; You just gained less drama. — Amber'Ley Della-Calce 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 made. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness. — Horace 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 jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle. [In the house of the fiddler all fiddle.] — George Herbert Copy Share Image
By all means use some time to be alone, salute thyself, see what thy soul doth wear. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Every one is weary, the poore in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books). — George Herbert 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
