Jest Quote by William Shakespeare Download Open image “His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it.” — William Shakespeare ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Jest Laughing Oath Revenge Savour Shallow Threat Wit
His jest will savour but of shallow wit, When thousands weep, more than did laugh at it. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
He who laughs at everything is as big a fool as he who weeps at everything. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
The tragedian will always be a limited tragedian if he has not learned how to laugh. The comedian who cannot weep will never touch… — Ellen Terry Copy Share Image
The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
If the gods have no sense of humor they must weep a great deal. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie 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
Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep’st so sound. Julius Caesar (2.1.248-251)” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Have you not heard it said full oft, A woman's nay doth stand for naught? — William Shakespeare 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
