A lot of truth is said in jest.
Eminem

I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.
Marie de France

I'm from New York, I make kind of somewhat maybe lewd, at times - maybe some would say dirty - jokes. But in jest.
Sarah Michelle Gellar

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.
Robert Lloyd

Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.
Bette Davis

Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.
Javan

Never injure a friend, even in jest.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
Friedrich Schiller

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
Henry David Thoreau

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
Samuel Richardson

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
Rudyard Kipling

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
Helen Rowland