Dies Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none, although they give occasion.

— George Washington

As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.

— Joanna Russ

The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.

— Annie Dillard

Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.

— George Bernard Shaw

Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest.

— Sam Levenson

Speak not injurious words, neither in jest nor earnest. Scoff at none though they give occasion.

— George Washington

Divinity is not playful. The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensibl e earnest. By a power that is unfathomably secret,…

— Annie Dillard

The boys throw rocks at the frogs in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.

— Bion of Borysthenes

I don't believe that there is a human creature in his senses, arrived to maturity, that at some time or other has not been…

— Bernard de Mandeville

Death is not earnest in the same way the eternal is. To the earnestness of death belongs precisely that remarkable capacity for awakening, that…

— Soren Kierkegaard

I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak…

— Henry David Thoreau

I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully, musically earnest.…

— Henry David Thoreau