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What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
Truth
Francis Bacon

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Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
Jest
Jean De La Bruyere

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Jests that give pains are no jests.
Jest
Miguel De Cervantes

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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
Jest
English Proverb

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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
Riches
Oliver Goldsmith

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A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
Humor
Horace

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I gleaned jests at home from obsolete farces.
Jokes and Jokers
Samuel Johnson

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The heavens and the earth and all that is between them, do you think they were created in jest?
Heaven
The Koran

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Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.
Jest
William Lloyd

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Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.
Royalty
Ovid

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The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
Jest
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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Clemency is one of the brightest diamonds in the crown of majesty.
Mercy
W. Secker

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He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
Jokes and Jokers
William Shakespeare

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War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
War
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
Memory
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
Lies and Lying
Paul Simon

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.
Truth
Source Unknown

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Irony is jesting behind hidden gravity.
Irony
John Weiss

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Virtue alone has majesty in death.
Death and Dying
Edward Young

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun