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As to jest, there ought to be certain things privileged from it--namely, religion, matters of state, great persons, and man's present business of importance, and any case that deserveth pity. - Francis Bacon It is dangerous to jest with God, death, or the devil; for the first neither can nor will be mocked; the second mocks all men at one time or another; and the third puts an eternal sarcasm on those that are too familiar with him. - J. Beaumont Jest with your equals. - Bion of Smyrna A joker is near akin to a buffoon; and neither of them is the least related to wit. - 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope A jest is a very serious thing. - Charles Churchill A joke's a very serious thing. - Charles Churchill, Ghost (bk. 4) A paltry, humbug jest; those who have the least wit make them best. - William Combe (Coombe) A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket. - John Dennis, in "The Gentleman's Magazine", vol. LI, p. 324 It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting. - Elizabeth I Wanton jests make fools laugh, and wise men frown. - Thomas Fuller (1) No time to break jests when the heartstrings are about to be broken. - Thomas Fuller (1), Holy and Profane States (maxim VIII) Jest not with the two-edged sword of God's word. - Thomas Fuller (1), Holy and Profane States--Of Jesting (maxim II) He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves to die a beggar by the bargain. - Thomas Fuller (1), Holy and Profane States--Of Jesting (maxim VII) Jests,--brain-fleas that jump about among the slumbering ideas. - Heinrich Heine Less at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance, Make not thy sport abuses: for the fly That feeds on dung is colored thereby. - George Herbert, Temple--Church Porch (st. 39) People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (I) And however are Dennises take offence, A double meaning shows double sense; And if proverbs tell truth, A double tooth Is wisdom's adopted dwelling. - Thomas Hood, Miss Kilmansegg The jest which is expected is already destroyed. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") 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. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature"), London (l. 165) Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect. [Fr., La moquerie est souvent une indigence d'esprit.] - Jean de la Bruyere Beware of biting jests; the more truth they carry with them, the greater wounds they give, the greater smarts they cause, and the greater scars they leave behind them. - Johann Kaspar Lavater (John Caspar Lavater) Judge of a jest when you have done laughing. - Robert Lloyd Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can. - John Milton, Horace That's a good joke but we do it much better in England. - General James Edward Oglethorpe, so a Prince of Wurtemberg who at dinner flicked some wine in Oglethorpe's face A jester, a bad character. [Fr., Diseur de bon mots, mauvais caractere.] - Blaise Pascal, Pensees (art VI, 22) Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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