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A joke's a very serious thing.

A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.

No time to break jests when the heartstrings are about to be broken.

Jest not with the two-edged sword of God's word.

He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves to die a beggar by the bargain.

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.

People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks.

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.

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.

Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect.

Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.

That's a good joke but we do it much better in England.

A jester, a bad character.

If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.

Joking set aside.

A jest loses its point when the jester laughs himself.

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!

Jesters do oft prove prophets.

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.

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.