War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade. Votes: 4
Percy Bysshe ShelleyThose who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others. Votes: 4
Samuel RichardsonSole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! Votes: 2
Alexander PopeSpeak not injurious words, neither in jest nor earnest. Scoff at none though they give occasion. Votes: 2
George WashingtonPierwszy z rodu jest przywiazany do drzewa, a ostatniego zjadaja mrowki. Votes: 0
Gabriel García MárquezA jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness. Votes: 0
HoraceThe fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite. Votes: 0
William ShenstoneThe boys throw rocks at the frogs in jest. But the frogs die in earnest. Votes: 0
Bion of BorysthenesEvery dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time. Votes: 0
George Bernard ShawThose that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest Votes: 0
Michel de MontaigneHis jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareGreat men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareOf all the griefs that harass the distressed, sure the most bitter is a scornful jest Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonOf all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonI watch my heart disappearing into her rosebud mouth. My Valentine's jest somehow seems less funny. Votes: 0
Neil GaimanImyself haveheard averygood jest, and havescornedto seem to have so sillya wit as to understand it. Votes: 0
John WebsterMan's life is but a jest, A dream, a shadow, bubble, air, a vapor at the best. Votes: 0
George Walteroften when I thought I joked, I told the truth, afraid to speak it except in jest. Votes: 0
Lucy FreemanO jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareFate does not jest and events are not a matter of chance. There is no existence out of nothing. Votes: 0
Gamal Abdel NasserAs my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest. Votes: 0
Joanna Russ....there is an ending [to Infinite Jest] as far as I'm concerned. Certain kind of parallel lines are supposed to start converging in such a way that an "end" can be projected by the reader somewhere beyond the right frame. If no such convergence or projection occured to you, then the book's failed for you. Votes: 4 David Foster Wallace