A Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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

Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau
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July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862

The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.

Plautus

The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.

Annie Dillard

If you want to kill something, neglect it. It happens in both good and bad. Neglect a relationship, it dies. Neglect your iman, it dies. But the same principal applies when you want to kill something like a thought or a desire. Neglect it, it dies.

Yasmin Mogahed

As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.

Joanna Russ

Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none, although they give occasion.

George Washington

The boys throw rocks at the frogs in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.

Bion of Borysthenes

Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.

George Bernard Shaw

Divinity is not playful. The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensibl e earnest. By a power that is unfathomably secret, and holy, and fleet. There is nothing to be done about it, but ignore it, or see.

Annie Dillard

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Charles Spurgeon

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

Anais Nin

Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest.

Sam Levenson

I don't believe that there is a human creature in his senses, arrived to maturity, that at some time or other has not been carried away by this passion (sc. envy) in good earnest; yet I never met with any one who dared own he was guilty of it but in jest.

Bernard de Mandeville

You can't be friends with a squirrel! A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit.

Sarah Jessica Parker

The Irish always jest even though they jest with tears.

Katharine Tynan

Let me tell you, if you have never seen an agitated squirrel you have seen very little, nor have you heard much, because the sound of an angry squirrel is not to be forgotten.

Joe R. Lansdale

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