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.
Long jesting was never good.
The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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.
It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.
Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
Leave jesting whiles it pleaseth, lest it turne to earnest.
Jesting and levity lead a man to lewdness.
Clumsy jesting is no joke.
Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect.
Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God.
Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect. [Fr. , La moquerie est souvent une indigence d'esprit. ]
