Jesting Quotes

This section contains Jesting Quotes
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. (Quote by - Thomas Hood)


A college joke to cure the dumps. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)


That's a good joke but we do it much better in England. (Quote by - General James Edward Oglethorpe)


Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect.(Quote by - Samuel Johnson)


If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.(Quote by - Titus Maccius Plautus)


A joke's a very serious thing. (Quote by - Charles Churchill)


Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times. And now how abhorred in my imagination it is! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)


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. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)


Jesters do oft prove prophets. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)


Joking set aside. (Quote by - Caius Caecilius Secundus)


A jest loses its point when the jester laughs himself. (Quote by - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller)


Jest not with the two-edged sword of God's word. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)


A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket. (Quote by - John Dennis)


A jester, a bad character. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)


Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can. (Quote by - John Milton)



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