Jest Quotes

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. Rudyard Kipling
You Women Soldier Out Wounded Remains Come Like Go Brains Left Up Roll Blow Afghanistan Plains Cut Your Rifle Jest
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest. Henry David Thoreau
You Earnest Squirrel Dies Jest
Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it. Bette Davis
Life Thought Life Is A Once All Things Know Show Now Things Jest
The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh. Friedrich Schiller
First Laugh Point He Makes Loses Who Jest
Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest. Javan
Great You Speak Those Around Revealed Truths Closely Listen Jest
If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Character Man Nothing Else Recognized He Badly Takes Fails Surely Which Jest
At its core, the United States is grateful, warm-hearted, full of unexpected twists and turns - not a cold and bullying prison - it's a place of infinite jest. Ilan Stavans
Bullying Grateful Prison Cold States Unexpected Infinite Place Turns Full United United States Jest Twists Core
The only reason I was allowed to have a career for a quarter century as an insult comic is because it's all in jest and all for fun. Lisa Lampanelli
Only Allowed Because Insult Comic Quarter Quarter Century Century Reason Fun Jest Career
I condemn all statements - made in sincerity or jest - that threaten or suggest the use of violence against the president of the United States or any other public official. Such rhetoric cannot and will not be tolerated. Paul Broun
Will Made Other President Statements States Threaten Sincerity Condemn Official Any Rhetoric Cannot Against Public Use Tolerated United United States Jest Suggest Violence
I'm from New York, I make kind of somewhat maybe lewd, at times - maybe some would say dirty - jokes. But in jest. Sarah Michelle Gellar
Jokes Say Kind Would Some Somewhat Dirty New Make Times York Maybe New York Jest
I was three. My father in jest said that he'd tell the doctor to give me a shot if I didn't behave. Good heavens, I have a mental picture of the living room and the doctor approaching the door. I was terrified. Ted Danson
Good Me Doctor Father Approaching Three Picture Living Tell Mental Give Give Me He Terrified Said Behave Heavens Door Room Shot Jest Living Room
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