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Letter "J" » Jesting
"A joke's a very serious thing."
Author: Charles Churchill
About: Jesting
"A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a
pocket."
Author: John Dennis
About: Jesting
"No time to break jests when the heartstrings are about to be
broken."
Author: Thomas Fuller
About: Jesting
"Jest not with the two-edged sword of God's word."
Author: Thomas Fuller
About: Jesting
"He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves to die a beggar
by the bargain."
Author: Thomas Fuller
About: Jesting
"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."
Author: George Herbert
About: Jesting
"People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on
the railroad tracks."
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
About: Jesting
"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."
Author: Thomas Hood
About: Jesting
"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."
Author: Samuel Johnson
About: Jesting
"Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect.
[Fr., La moquerie est souvent une indigence d'esprit.]"
Author: Samuel Johnson
About: Jesting
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