| Author |
Quotes |
| Blaise Pascal | A jester, a bad character. |
| Charles Churchill | A joke's a very serious thing. |
| John Dennis | A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket. |
| Jonathan Swift | A college joke to cure the dumps. |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr | People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. |
| Thomas Hood | And however are Dennises take offence, A double meaning shows double sense; And if proverbs tell truth, A double tooth Is wisdom's adopted dwelling. |
| George Herbert | Less at thine own things laugh, lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance, Make not thy sport abuses, for the fly That feeds on dung is colored thereby. |
| John Milton | Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can. |
| Samuel Johnson | Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest, Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart. |
| Samuel Johnson | Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect. |
| Thomas Fuller | No time to break jests when the heartstrings are about to be broken. |
| Thomas Fuller | Jest not with the two-edged sword of God's word. |
| Thomas Fuller | He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves to die a beggar by the bargain. |
| William Shakespeare | Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times. And now how abhorred in my imagination it is! |
| William Shakespeare | Jesters do oft prove prophets. |
| William Shakespeare | A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. |
| William Shakespeare | I am not such an ass but I can keep my hand dry. But what's your jest? A dry jest, sir. Are you full of them? Ay, sir, I have them at my fingers' ends. Marry, now I let go your hand, I am barren. |
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