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
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