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What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.

I'm from New York, I make kind of somewhat maybe lewd, at times - maybe some would say dirty - jokes. But in jest.

Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in 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.

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

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

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

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

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

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.