“It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.”

“Jesting and levity lead a man to lewdness.”

“Man’s life is but a jest,
A dream, a shadow, bubble, air, a vapor at the best.”

“1800. Make not a Jest of another Man's Infirmity. Remember thy own.”

“I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.”

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

“At least wasn't nobody, no outsider, there to hear it so maybe even before next January he was able to believe hadn't none of it even been said, like miracle: what aint believed aint seen. Miracle, pure miracle anyhow, how little a man needs to outlast jest [just] about anything.”

“Dying should come easy:
like a freight train you
don't hear when
your back is
turned.”

“It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.”

“It is unfortunate to hear about the shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. Is this the lifestyle and management the United States leadership wants to introduce to the world?”