Jest

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
Henry David Thoreau
Jest
To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Jest
Plants
Smile
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
War
Delight
Jest
Trade
The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
Friedrich Schiller
First
Jest
Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
Samuel Richardson
Jest
Will
If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Character
Jest
Man
Nothing
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.
Rudyard Kipling
Women
Afghanistan
Jest
I'm from New York, I make kind of somewhat maybe lewd, at times - maybe some would say dirty - jokes. But in jest.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Jest
Jokes
A lot of truth is said in jest.
Eminem
Truth
Jest
Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.
Bette Davis
Life
Thought
Jest
Now