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

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

Fate does not jest and events are not a matter of chance. There is no existence out of nothing.

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none, although they give occasion.

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.

Man's life is but a jest, A dream, a shadow, bubble, air, a vapor at the best.

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 those that have taken the word of Allah in jest.

Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.

It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.

The boys throw rocks at the frogs in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.

Many a truth is told in jest.

May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.

Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.

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

If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.

There's many a true word spoken in jest.

Many a true word is spoken in jest

Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.

Oh sirs, deal with sin as sin, and speak of heaven and hell as they are, and not as if you were in jest.

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 likes to have fun.

Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but find it out.

As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.

Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest.

Life is a jest of the Gods and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh… or else you'll weep yourself to death.

All great humorists are sad... I cannot help seeing beyond the tinsel of humour, and recognising the pitiful basis of jest - the world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

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

Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.

Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation.

It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.

Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

Heaven to me's a fair blue stretch of sky, Earth's jest a dusty road.

...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.

There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness.

The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.

We never know we go when we are going- We jest and shut the Door- Fate-following-behind us bolts it- And we accost no more-.

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

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

Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance.

I watch my heart disappearing into her rosebud mouth. My Valentine's jest somehow seems less funny.

Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.

The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.

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

Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?

His jest will savour but of shallow wit, When thousands weep, more than did laugh at it.

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.

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