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To be over much facetious is the accomplishment of courtiers and blemish of the wise. -- Saadi
I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters. -- Isaac Barrow
I don't want to sound facetious, but humour is the key to the soul. You know what I mean? -- Martin Lawrence
The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide. -- Josh Billings
I am not being facetious when I say that the real enemies in this country are the Pentagon and its pals in big business. -- Bella Abzug
Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, "Let him beat me too when I am absent. -- Jean de La Fontaine
I am in no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company, yet in one dream I can compose a whole Comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof. -- Thomas Browne
I am perhaps being a bit facetious but if some of my good Baptist brethren in Georgia had done a little preaching from the pulpitagainst the K.K.K. in the '20s, I would have a little more genuine American respect for their Christianity! -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The two girls disappeared into the stern cabin once more. Will watched them go, then asked Halt, 'Anything you'd like me to do? Grow a beard? Learn to walk like a rooster?' 'If you could stop asking facetious questions, that'd be a start,' Halt told him. 'But it's probably a little late in life for you to do that. -- John Flanagan
How Horrid" has a slightly facetious tone that strikes me as Wildean. It appears to embrace the actual horror--puberty, public disgrace--then at the last second nimbly sidesteps it, laughing. -- Alison Bechdel

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