Quotes About Jesting

One jests because one wants to contemplate.

Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God.

Clumsy jesting is no joke.

If I were obliged to marry all those with whom I have jested, I should have at least two hundred wives.

Life can be a waste by jesting and joking away their time.

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

I'm definitely a joker.

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

A southwest blow on ye and blister you all o'er!' 'The red plague rid you!' 'Toads, beetles, bats, light on you!' 'As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed with raven's feather from unwholesome fen drop on you.' 'Strange stuff' 'Thou jesting monkey thou' 'Apes with foreheads villainous low' 'Pied ninny' 'Blind mole...' -The Caliban Curses

Jesting and levity accustom a man to lewdness.

Take her to the kitchen," came the order. "If she lies, throw her in the cauldron." "He was jesting about the cauldron, wasn't he? You cannot have a cauldron big enough for a person?" Bard halted, sighed, looked at her with those wide, liquid eyes."We," he said, "have knives.