Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.

Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.

I don't really care who gets their inspiration from where, it's the end results that count.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, When honor and affection fail.

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.

Every year of my working life, I have been fortunate enough to earn more money than I have spent.

Reflecting the truth sounds easy, but sometimes it's not.

There's not a single country that actually approaches economics in a pure, free market, capitalist way. I like the free market - but it very much exists only in textbooks. If I had a choice, and we could live in a very pure world, I would be a supporter of the free markets.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

I teach in the Divinity School at Duke University, a very secular university. But before Duke, I taught fourteen years at the University of Notre Dame.

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism.

I want to get up and ride my horses, do what I love doing. I don't want to be recognised.

In exorcism a verbal argument can never do anything. You cant ever beat the entity in a verbal argument because thats what he wants. Its only through a confront a non verbal confront that anything happens. It has to be non verbal.

I guess I much prefer the path of the contrarian: the guy who goes against the grain a bit. The careers of the people who I admire deeply - like the Coen brothers and Soderbergh - don't repeat themselves, and they make radically different films at times, and I think that's wonderful.

When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart.

Anything by Gonzalez Rubalcaba is unbelievable. I've been listening to the best of Django Reinhardt.

It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.

Truly, I am a woman of the last minute. When I was pregnant, I organised three different hospitals because I couldn't decide where I wanted to have my baby: London, Rome or Paris. In the end, I decided to go to Rome, arrived on the Monday and gave birth on the Saturday.

We should have a path to legal status for the 12 million people that are here illegally. It means, come out from the shadows, pay a fine, earn legal status by working, by paying taxes, learning English. Not committing crimes and earn legal status where you're not cutting in front of the line for people that are patiently waiting outside.

Could it be that toxic mimics are toxic because they ignore responsibility, they ignore relationship, they ignore presence, they substitute control for fluidity and choice?

Your behavior is based on your beliefs and what you do and say over and over again helps develop your habits.

A stand-up comedian will never be the life of a party. Instead, he will be the guy who is standing at a corner and observing people.

I'm channelling my 14-year-old self. She's thinking about putting on her big hoop earrings and baggy pants and going to the mall downtown.

My favorite favorites are people like Bunuel, Fellini and Charlie Chaplin.

It is only fair to expect public employees like me and others in the public sector to pay something close to what our neighbors and our fellow citizens do in the private sector.

As federal lawmakers, we have a responsibility to set a precedent for energy efficient practices.

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other

NBC News found that FEMA has redrawn maps even for properties that have repeatedly filed claims for flood losses from previous storms. At least some of the properties are on the secret 'repetitive loss list' that FEMA sends to communities to alert them to problem properties.

You have to pick the right tool for the point you're trying to make and there is no one solution.