Jest Quotes

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

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

A lot of truth is said in jest.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.

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