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“I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly and seriously on the subject, is silent”
Henry David Thoreau quotes (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)
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“A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, never in the tongue of him who makes it”
William Shakespeare quotes (English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616)
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“Many a true word is spoken in jest”
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“Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.”
Bette Davis quotes (American actress, 1908-1989)
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“Sweetest love, I do not go, / For weariness of thee, / Nor in hope the world can show / A fitter Love for me; / But since that I / Must die at last, 'tis best / To use myself in jest, / Thus by feigned deaths to die.”
John Donne quotes (English poet, 1572-1631)

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“We never know where we go when we are going, We jest and shut the door; Fate - following behind us -bolts it, And we accost no more”
Emily Dickinson quotes (American Poet who has been called the New England mystic, 1830-1886)
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“War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes (English Romantic Poet whose passionate search for personal love and social justice was gradually channeled from overt actions into poems that rank with the greatest in the English language. 1792-1822)
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“Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note, a short saying, or a jest, shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges,”
Plutarch quotes (Ancient Greek Biographer and Author, 46-119)
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“Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.”
Aristotle quotes (Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scientist and Physician, 384 BC-322 BC)
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“Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.”
Eyemadreamer Javan quotes (Iranian born American Inventor, (invented gas laser 1960) b.1946)
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jest synonyms: gag, gagged, Gags, jape, joke, joked, jokes, laugh, laughed, laughs, wheeze, yak.

See also: jesting, jests.

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