Top 39 Jesting Quotes
#1. Nature understands no jesting; she is always true, always serious, always severe; she is always right, and the errors and faults are always those of man. The man incapable of appreciating her, she despises; and only to the apt, the pure, and the true, does she resign herself and reveal her secrets.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#2. There are two kinds of Fools. The real Fool is the most sincere of mortals: the Court Fool and his kind - the trifling, jesting buffoon - but simulate the family virtue, and steal the family name, for sordid purposes.
Albion W. Tourgee
#3. .Clumsy jesting is no joke.
Aesop
#4. Jesting and levity lead a man to lewdness.
Rabbi Akiva
#7. Take her to the kitchen," came the order. "If she lies, throw her in the cauldron."
"He was jesting about the cauldron, wasn't he?
You cannot have a cauldron big enough for a person?"
Bard halted, sighed, looked at her with those wide, liquid eyes."We," he said, "have knives.
Nalini Singh
#8. Do you think it's over now, though? That he's through with me?"
"One way you could make sure," said Chiro. She was glib, jesting - surely - but her eyes were bright. "You could die," she said. "Resurrect ugly. He'd leave you alone then.
Laini Taylor
#9. Oh, 'tis jesting, dancing, drinking
Spins the heavy world around.
A.E. Housman
#10. We English have perfect eyesight."
Alec finally turned to look at her. "Are you jesting with me, wife?"
"You decide, husband."
"Aye, you are," Alec answered. "I've already learned all about the English sense of humor."
"And what have you learned?"
"You don't have any.
Julie Garwood
#11. Life can be a waste by jesting and joking away their time.
Sunday Adelaja
#12. It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.
Elizabeth I
#13. But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.
Paul The Apostle
#14. Foolish talking and jesting are not the ways in which Christian cheerfulness should express itself, but rather "giving of thanks" (Eph. 5:4). Religion is the source of joy and gladness, but its joy is expressed in a religious way, in thanksgiving and praise.
Charles Hodge
#15. Leave jesting whiles it pleaseth, lest it turne to earnest.
George Herbert
#19. 14Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, and said, "Up, get out of this place, for the LORD will destroy the city." But he appeared to his sons-in-law to be jesting.
Anonymous
#20. You know I don't read novels,' she said and, trying to equal his jesting mood, went on: 'Besides, you once said it was the height of bad form for husbands and wives to love each other.'
'I once said too God damn many things,' he retorted abruptly and rose to his feet.
Margaret Mitchell
#21. I feel safer with a Pyrrho than with a Saint Paul, for a jesting wisdom is gentler than an unbridled sanctity.
Emil Cioran
#22. Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God.
Ellen G. White
#23. What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
Francis Bacon
#24. There sprang up between them the light jesting conversation of people who are free and satisfied, to whom it does not matter where they go or what they talk about.
Anton Chekhov
#25. We lost this animal instinct that we used to have. We use a very low percentage of our instinct.
Marion Cotillard
#26. No, Margaret Atwood writes literature, whereas I write fiction. I'm from the American Midwest, so literature is beyond my abilities.
Stella Atrium
#27. I don't wear much make-up in my non-working life, though I love to dress up and put on a face for a special occasion. As I get older, I see less of the fantasy 'Indian' self I inherited from my father, and I see my mother looking back at me.
Diana Quick
#28. Yeah, well. You're my best friend, you know, and I love you.
Brendan Halpin
#29. It was unbelievable seeing me as an action figure! In a few months, toddlers all around the country will be biting my head off!
Emma Watson
#30. I love tiny, plastic realistic food magnets. I don't know why. They're hilarious.
Amy Lee
#31. No one thought I would be successful. Everyone thought I would fail. You have no idea how much courage it took for me to do this.
LaToya Jackson
#32. I have to say I know much more about football than I would like to, because my husband is a rabid football fan, and it's been so horrible.
Ruth Reichl
#33. The only [child welfare] systems that succeed emphasize family preservation.
Richard Wexler
#34. We must do better or perish as the nation we know today.
Lauro Cavazos
#36. America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
Woodrow Wilson
#37. I'm not going to sacrifice my mental health to have the perfect body.
Demi Lovato
#38. I'm just an insomniac struggling for a night where I don't dream of you anymore.
Lone Alaskan Gypsy
#39. I don't know anything, I never did know anything, but now I know I don't know anything!
Charles Dickens
