#jest

The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#jest #laugh #loses #makes #point

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#delight #game #hired #jest #lawyer

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#another #become #jest #mischief #plants

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#his #imagination #indebted #jests #memory

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. ↗

— Paul Simon

#hear #hears #jests #lies #man

I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side. ↗

— Ralph Steadman

#get #i #ideas #majesty #nature

The amount of time we spend with Jesus - meditating on His Word and His majesty, seeking His face - establishes our fruitfulness in the kingdom. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#establishes #face #fruitfulness #his #jesus

While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#been #experience #i #immune #majesty

Despite my vanity, I fear for my sanity. ↗

— Pseudonymous Bosch

#vanity

The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#imagination #jests #jokes #memory #imagination