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Tag Name "Jesting" (13)

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Jesting and levity lead a man to lewdness.
Rabbi Akiva
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Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect.
Samuel Johnson
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Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I believe I understand anti-Semitism which is a very complex movement. I see it as a Jew, but without hatred or fear. I recognize what is anti-Semitism is rude jesting, vulgar jealousy of métier, hereditary prejudice but also what can be considered as in fact legitimate defence.
Theodor Herzl
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Oh, 'tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around.
A. E. Housman
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It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.
Elizabeth I
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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
Gary D. Schmidt
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Long jesting was never good.
George Herbert
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Of Love--may God exalt you! -the first part is jesting, and the last part is right earnestness. So majestic are its diverse aspects, they are too subtle to be described their reality can only be apprehended by personal experience. Love is neither disapproved by Religion, nor prohibited by the Law for every heart is in God's hands.
Ibn Hazm
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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.
Nalini Singh
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Clumsy jesting is no joke.
Aesop
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What is truth? said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer.
Francis Bacon
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Leave jesting whiles it pleaseth, lest it turne to earnest.
George Herbert