Jest Quotes

A lot of truth is said in jest.
Eminem

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

Squirrel, Earnest, Dies

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

Women, Soldier, Left

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

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

Woman, Sinner, Wit

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

Life, Thought, Show

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

War, Game, Lawyer

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

Character, Nothing, Else

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

Laugh, Makes, Point

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

Others, Themselves, Bear

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

Smile, Become, Another

Here's a proposal, offered only partly in jest: no resident of the United States, whether born here or abroad, should get to be a citizen until age 18, at which time each such resident has to take a test.
Eric Liu

Age, Time, Here

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

Times, Dirty, Maybe

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

Great, Around, Speak

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

Love, Business, Woman

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

Judge, Done, Laughing

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