The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
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That high All-seer which I dallied with Hath turned my feigned prayer on my head, And given in earnest what I begged in jest.
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Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.
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Woman! The peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch, and the sinner his justification!
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Alas, poor Yorick I knew him, Horatio a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now your gambols, your songs your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar Not one now, to mock your own grinning Quite chap-fallen Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come.
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War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
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Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
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Haste thee Nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful jollity,...
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Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at you, you will not be harmed unless you have sore places.
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Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. Where be your jibes now, your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar?
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The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
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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.
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Alas, poor Yorick I knew him Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy...
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Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.
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It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.
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Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Of all the griefs that harass the distrest,
Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
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Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.
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Never injure a friend, even in jest.
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