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Image of Helen Rowland
Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
- Helen Rowland
Collection: Jest
Image of Geoffrey Chaucer
Many a true word is spoken in jest
- Geoffrey Chaucer
Collection: Jest
Image of Bion of Smyrna
Jest with your equals.
- Bion of Smyrna
Collection: Jest
Image of Plautus
If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
- Plautus
Collection: Jest
Image of John Webster
Imyself haveheard averygood jest, and havescornedto seem to have so sillya wit as to understand it.
- John Webster
Collection: Jest
Image of William Shakespeare
Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Jest
Image of William Shakespeare
In jest, there is truth.
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Jest
Image of Jean de la Bruyere
Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
- Jean de la Bruyere
Collection: Jest
Image of Emily Dickinson
The truth I do not dare to know I muffle with a jest.
- Emily Dickinson
Collection: Jest
Image of Elizabeth I
It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.
- Elizabeth I
Collection: Jest
Image of George Herbert
Some had rather lose their friend then their Jest.
- George Herbert
Collection: Jest
Image of Samuel Johnson
Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.
- Samuel Johnson
Collection: Jest

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