“The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
Source: Walden and Other Writings
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“104. Leave jesting while it pleaseth, lest it turne to earnest.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
James Burgh (1714–1775) British politician
The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)
“As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frogs in jest.
But the frogs die in earnest.”
Joanna Russ book The Female Man
Part 8, Chapter 10 (p. 196)
Source: Fiction, The Female Man (1975)
“We may, indeed, indulge in sport and jest, but in the same way as we enjoy sleep or other relaxations, and only when we have satisfied the claims of our earnest, serious task.”
Ludo autem et ioco uti illo quidem licet, sed sicut somno et quietibus ceteris tum, cum gravibus seriisque rebus satis fecerimus.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
Book I, section 103
De Officiis – On Duties (44 BC)
“Irony is jesting hidden behind gravity. Humor is gravity concealed behind the jest.”
John Weiss (1818–1879) United States clergyman and abolitionist
Wit, Humor, and Shakespeare: Twelve essays (1876), p. 63.
“There is no jesting with edge tools.”
John Fletcher The Little French Lawyer
Act IV, scene vii.
The Little French Lawyer (c. 1619–23; published 1647)
