Jesting - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://www.maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23241<![CDATA[Jesters do oft prove prophets. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23242<![CDATA[A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23243<![CDATA[(Andrew:) I am not such an ass but I can keep my hand dry. But what's your jest? (Maria:) A ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23244<![CDATA[A college joke to cure the dumps. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23245<![CDATA[A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it. [Lat., Aspere facetiae, ubi ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23246<![CDATA[Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23233<![CDATA[Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect. [Fr., La moquerie est souvent une indigence d'esprit.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23234<![CDATA[Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23235<![CDATA[That's a good joke but we do it much better in England. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23236<![CDATA[A jester, a bad character. [Fr., Diseur de bon mots, mauvais caractere.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23237<![CDATA[If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest. [Lat., Si quid dictum est ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23238<![CDATA[Joking set aside. [Lat., Omissis jocis.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23239<![CDATA[A jest loses its point when the jester laughs himself. [Ger., Des Spass verliert Alles, wenn der Spassmacher selber lacht.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23240<![CDATA[People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23231<![CDATA[And however are Dennises take offence, A double meaning shows double sense; And if proverbs tell truth, ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23232<![CDATA[A joke's a very serious thing. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23225<![CDATA[A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23226<![CDATA[No time to break jests when the heartstrings are about to be broken. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23227<![CDATA[Jest not with the two-edged sword of God's word. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23228<![CDATA[He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves to die a beggar by the bargain. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23229<![CDATA[Less at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance, Make not ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23230