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“A joke's a very serious thing.”
Charles Churchill Quotes Source: Ghost (bk. 4)
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“A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a
pocket.”
John Dennis Quotes Source: in "The Gentleman's Magazine", vol. LI, p. 324
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“No time to break jests when the heartstrings are about to be
broken.”
Thomas Fuller Quotes Source: Holy and Profane States (maxim VIII)
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“Jest not with the two-edged sword of God's word.”
Thomas Fuller Quotes Source: Holy and Profane States--Of Jesting (maxim II)
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“He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves to die a beggar
by the bargain.”
Thomas Fuller Quotes Source: Holy and Profane States--Of Jesting (maxim VII)
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“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 Quotes Source: Temple--Church Porch (st. 39)
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“People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on
the railroad tracks.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes Source: Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (I)
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“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 Quotes Source: Miss Kilmansegg
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“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 Quotes Source: London (l. 165)
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“Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect.
[Fr., La moquerie est souvent une indigence d'esprit.]”
Samuel Johnson Quotes Source: London (l. 165)
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“Joking decides great things,
Stronger and better oft than earnest can.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Horace
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“That's a good joke but we do it much better in England.”
General James Edward Oglethorpe Quotes Source: so a Prince of Wurtemberg who at dinner flicked some wine in Oglethorpe's face
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“A jester, a bad character.
[Fr., Diseur de bon mots, mauvais caractere.]”
Blaise Pascal Quotes Source: Pensees (art VI, 22)
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“If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to
earnest.
[Lat., Si quid dictum est per jocum,
Non aequum est id te serio praevortier.]”
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) Quotes Source: Amphitruo (III, 2, 39)
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“Joking set aside.
[Lat., Omissis jocis.]”
Pliny the Younger (Caius Caecilius Secundus) Quotes Source: Epistles (I, 21)
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“A jest loses its point when the jester laughs himself.
[Ger., Des Spass verliert Alles, wenn der Spassmacher selber
lacht.]”
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Quotes Source: Fiesco (I, 7)
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“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!”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at V, i)
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“Jesters do oft prove prophets.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: King Lear (Regan at V, iii)
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“A jest's prosperity lies in the ear
Of him that hears it, never in the tongue
Of him that makes it.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Love's Labor's Lost (Rosaline at V, ii)
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“(Andrew:) I am not such an ass but I can keep my hand dry. But
what's your jest?
(Maria:) A dry jest, sir.
(Andrew:) Are you full of them?
(Maria:) Ay, sir, I have them at my fingers' ends. Marry, now I
let go your hand, I am barren.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Andrew & Maria at I, iii)
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“A college joke to cure the dumps.”
Jonathan Swift Quotes Source: Cassinus and Peter
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“A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp
sting behind it.
[Lat., Aspere facetiae, ubi nimis ex vero traxere,
Acram sui memoriam relinquunt.]”
Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus) Quotes Source: Annales (XV, 68)
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