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

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

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

Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.

Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it

Jests that give pains are no jests