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«Many a true word is spoken in jest»
Author: English Proverb | About: Words | Keywords: jest, jesting, spoken
«The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh»
Author: Friedrich von Schiller (Dramatist, Historian, Philosopher, Poet) | Keywords: jest
«The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau (Essayist, Philosopher, Poet) | Keywords: earnest, in earnest, jest, squirrel, squirrels
«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 myself in jest, / Thus by feigned deaths to die.»
Author: John Donne | Keywords: deaths, feigned, feigning, fitter, go for, jest, jesting, sweetest, Tis, weariness
«Never injure a friend, even in jest.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero (Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer) | About: Friends | Keywords: injure, jest
«Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note, a short saying, or a jest, shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges,»
Author: Plutarch (Author, Biographer) | Keywords: achievements, distinguish, distinguished, jest, jesting, note, Real Character, sieges, small person, The Siege, vices
«The heavens and the earth and all that is between them, do you think they were created in jest?»
Author: quran | Keywords: heavens, jest
«Of all the griefs that harass the distressed, sure the most bitter is a scornful jest»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Grief | Keywords: harass, harassed, jest, scornful
«The divine shall mean for us only such a primal reality as the individual feels impelled to respond to solemnly and gravely, and neither by a curse nor a jest.»
Author: William James (Philosopher, Psychologist) | Keywords: gravely, impelled, impels, jest, primal, solemnly
«Oh, laugh or mourn with me the rueful jest, / A cassocked huntsman and a fiddling priest!»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: cassocked, fiddling, huntsman, huntsmen, jest, mourn, rueful
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