“ 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! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft… ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ No time to break jests when the heartstrings are about to be broken. ”
- Thomas Fuller- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can. ”
- John Milton- Copy
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“ Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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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- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves to die a beggar by the bargain. ”
- Thomas Fuller- Copy
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“ What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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