Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.

Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes just be an illusion.

I dont wish to be everything to everyone but I would like to be something to someone.

Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.

Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.

The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.

I'm from New York, I make kind of somewhat maybe lewd, at times - maybe some would say dirty - jokes. But in jest.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.

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.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

You will never have this day again so make it count!

Perhaps I will stay in Chicago and operate on human beings instead of on dogs. From a business standpoint, it would be excellent. But, as I hate medical practice, I would like better to make little money in doing scientific work than a great deal in doing surgical operations.

Flying was great. You have to think fast. You have to develop intuition about the physics of air moving quickly over a surface.

My parents split up when I was 3 years old, and I lived with my mother.

The beauties of the game may be lost on some of us sometimes, but many children will read about football when they will read nothing else, not for realism or glamour but for romance.

It is still crazy to me that I have two boys born on the same exact day. I really tried to not have it happen, so they could each have their day, but there was no way around it.

America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking.

Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in Hell

The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.

At school, I got into the whole CB thing, hiding a transceiver in my study-bedroom with which I'd make appointments to meet girls in town. I wasn't good enough at physics to take it much further than fun, but I suppose there was a need to communicate.

Personally, I read a lot of scripts.

I think gardens are fantastic, and I'd love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just planting flowers during the summer. There's something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful.

If you can make people laugh, you know you're getting it right; it's an instant pat on the back.

So now, if we don't fund the physical sciences, where will the Next Big Thing come from?

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

Prince Charles is the best-dressed man in the world.

I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.

Ignoring to change your thoughts and beliefs wouldnt fail to cause your negative mood to remain unchanged.

I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.

We each have a self, but I don't think that we're born with one. You know how newborn babies believe they're part of everything; they're not separate? Well that fundamental sense of oneness is lost on us very quickly. It's like that initial stage is over - oneness: infancy, unformed, primitive. It's no longer valid or real.

Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives.

He helps me every day to do my exercises. Siegfried told me once, 'The one who is a hero is the one who can hang on just one minute longer.'

I did 'The Frank Skinner Show,' and they gave me a little jukebox-shaped CD player, which looks nice in the kitchen.

I have never liked haircuts.