Best Jest Quotes

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

Try to let what is unfair teach you.

often when I thought I joked, I told the truth, afraid to speak it except in jest.

Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.

A friend must not be injured, even in jest.

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another’s breast is to become a principal in the mischief.

If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.

I condemn all statements – made in sincerity or jest – that threaten or suggest the use of violence against the president of the United States or any other public official. Such rhetoric cannot and will not be tolerated.

I am just a poor boy, though my story’s seldom told, and I have squandered my resistance, for a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises. All lies in jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest…la-la-la-la-la-la-la-lala-la-la-la-la…

Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest

I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a 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.

The human animal … is … neither male nor female … And if I am allowed to jest a little in passing, I have a joke that is not altogether irrelevant: nothing resembles a male cat on the windowsill more than a female cat.

Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.

O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man’s face, or a weathercock on a steeple.

Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest.

A jest’s prosperity lies in the ear

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

All our pride is but a jest. None are worst and none are best. Grief and hope and joy and fear Play their pageant everywhere.

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

Of all the grief’s that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.

A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man’s comfort and inspiration is another’s jest and scorn.

Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.

He who does not like you will defame you in jest.

Jests that give pains are no jests.

The Irish always jest even though they jest with tears.

Sweetest love, I do not go, For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter love for me; But since that I Must die at last, ’tis best, To use my self in jest Thus by feign’d deaths to die.

Imyself haveheard averygood jest, and havescornedto seem to have so sillya wit as to understand it.

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

Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, Nods, and Becks, and wreathed Smiles, Such as hang on Hebe’s cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.

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

What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and in reality not knowing their own minds.

Life seems a jest of Fate’s contriving.

It is the way of my people to use light words at such times and say less than they mean. We fear to say too much. It robs us of the right words when a jest is out of place.

[Luke, holding stormtrooper helmet.] Alas, poor stormtrooper, I knew ye not,/ yet have I taken both uniform and life/ From thee. What manner of a man wert thou?/ A man of inf’nite jest or cruelty?/ A man with helpmate and with children too?/ A man who hath his Empire serv’d with pride?/ A man, perhaps, who wish’d for perfect peace?/ What’er thou wert, goodman, thy pardon grant/ Unto the one who took thy place: e’en me.