Famous quotes
Quotes by famous people, credited to who said them. Your own quotes must not match any of these. More are added all the time. 1,158,269 quotes Who coined it · How we decide
EnglishItalianoPolskiעבריתFrançaisPortuguêsفارسیEspañol中文РусскийDeutschالعربيةहिन्दी日本語ΕλληνικάLatina
John Weiss
2 quotes
“Irony is jesting hidden behind gravity. Humor is gravity concealed behind the jest.”
John Weiss (1818–1879) first seen 1876 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Wit, Humor, and Shakespeare: Twelve essays (1876), p. 63.
“The truest worship is a life; All dreaming we resign; We lay our offerings at Thy feet, — Our lives, O God, are Thine!”
John Weiss (1818–1879) said by 1879 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 118.