Well, sir, learn to jest in good time;
there's a time for all things.
Well, sir, learn to jest in good time;
there's a time for all things.
Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.
When you were there, and you, and you,
Happiness crowned the night; I too,
Laughing and looking, one of all,
I watched the quivering lamplight fall
On plate and flowers and pouring tea
And cup and cloth; and they and we
Flung all the dancing moments by
With jest and glitter.
Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.
I'm from New York, I make kind of somewhat maybe lewd, at times - maybe some would say dirty - jokes. But in jest.
Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.
To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.
A lot of truth is said in 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.
Never injure a friend, even in jest.
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