#jest

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#blow #brains #come #cut #go

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#grouch #hangs #his #jest #justification

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