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Many a truth is told in jest.
A lot of truth is said in jest.
Every love story is a ghost story.
Many a true word is spoken in jest
Many true words are spoken in jest.
Jests that give pains are no jests.
Never injure a friend, even in jest.
Jest not with the eye or with Religion.
There's many a true word spoken in jest.
Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.
A friend must not be injured, even in jest.
Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.
Love taught me that your honour did but jest.
Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
Some had rather lose their friend then their Jest.
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.
The Irish always jest even though they jest with tears.
I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.
Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.
A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.
often when I thought I joked, I told the truth, afraid to speak it except in jest.
Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.
His jest will savour but of shallow wit, When thousands weep, more than did laugh at it.
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.
I often say in jest, 'We haven't changed the world but hopefully we've become an accessory.'
Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
Imyself haveheard averygood jest, and havescornedto seem to have so sillya wit as to understand it.
To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.
Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.
I'm from New York, I make kind of somewhat maybe lewd, at times - maybe some would say dirty - jokes. But in jest.
If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange —
Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
Raillery is more insupportable than wrong; because we have a right to resent injuries, but are ridiculous in being angry at a jest.
The only reason I was allowed to have a career for a quarter century as an insult comic is because it's all in jest and all for fun.
The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.
For whatever reason, when it came out in 1995, 'Infinite Jest' became a cultural event. It was the massive book that was 'cool' for all the Gen Xers to read.
At its core, the United States is grateful, warm-hearted, full of unexpected twists and turns - not a cold and bullying prison - it's a place of infinite jest.
It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.
Heretics are wicked, but they're mighty int'resting. It's jest that they've got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He's hard to find - which He ain't never.
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.
I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have shunned wit steeped in venom--not a letter of mine is dipped in poisonous jest.