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Jest Quotes

Miguel de Cervantes quote: "Jests that give pains are no jests."
Jests that give pains are no jests. Miguel de Cervantes
Edgar Allan Poe quote: "Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally..."
Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made. Edgar Allan Poe
Paulo Coelho quote: "W czoko jest spoko."
W czoko jest spoko. Paulo Coelho
John Gay quote: "Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and..."
Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it. John Gay
The more he saw, the more he doubted. He watched men narrowly, and saw how, beneath the surface, courage was often rashness; and prudence, cowardice; generosity, a clever piece of calculation; justice, a wrong; delicacy, pusillanimity; honesty, a modus vivendi; and by some strange dispensation of fate, he must see that those who at heart were really honest, scrupulous, just, generous, prudent or brave were held cheaply by their fellow-men. ‘What a cold-blooded jest!’ said he to himself. ‘It... Honore de Balzac
L. M. Montgomery quote: "I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest..."
I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory. L. M. Montgomery
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "My soul is calm and clear, like the mountains in the morning...."
My soul is calm and clear, like the mountains in the morning. But they think I am cold, and a mocker with terrible jests. Friedrich Nietzsche
Stephen kissed me in the spring, Robin in the fall, But Colin only looked at me And never kissed at all. Stephen’s kiss was lost in jest, Robin’s lost in play, But the kiss in Colin’s eyes Haunts me night and day. Sara Teasdale
It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps. Martin Luther King jr.
You shall not hear their mirth: You shall not come to think them well content. By any jest of mine. These men are worth. Your tears: You are not worth their merriment. Wilfred Owen
It is the way of my people to use light words at such times and say less than they mean. We fear to say too much. It robs us of the right words when a jest is out of place. J. R. R. Tolkien
This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather. That comes before his eye. This is a practise. As full of labour as a wise man's art. For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit. William Shakespeare
Bernard Cornwell quote: "Life is a jest of the Gods and there is no justice. You must..."
Life is a jest of the Gods and there is no justice. You must learn to laug? or else you'll weep yourself to death. Bernard Cornwell
There sprang up between them the light jesting conversation of people who are free and satisfied, to whom it does not matter where they go or what they talk about. Anton Chekhov
John Gay quote: "My Own EpitaphLife's a jest, and all things show it. I thought..."
My Own EpitaphLife's a jest, and all things show it. I thought so once, and now I know it. John Gay

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