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A jester, a bad character.
[Fr., Diseur de bon mots, mauvais caractere.]
A jester, a bad character.
[Fr., Diseur de bon mots, mauvais caractere.]
That's a good joke but we do it much better in England.
That's a good joke but we do it much better in England.
A college joke to cure the dumps.
A college joke to cure the dumps.
If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to
earnest.
[Lat., Si quid read more
If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to
earnest.
[Lat., Si quid dictum est per jocum,
Non aequum est id te serio praevortier.]
A joke's a very serious thing.
A joke's a very serious thing.
Joking set aside.
[Lat., Omissis jocis.]
Joking set aside.
[Lat., Omissis jocis.]
No time to break jests when the heartstrings are about to be
broken.
No time to break jests when the heartstrings are about to be
broken.
He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves to die a beggar
by the bargain.
He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves to die a beggar
by the bargain.
People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on
the railroad tracks.
People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on
the railroad tracks.
