Quotes about Jest
Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.
- Samuel Johnson
The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of your difficulties but overcome them.
- LM Montgomery
Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of your difficulties but overcome them.' Isn't that worth learning, Aunt Jimsie?
- LM Montgomery
It happened that a fire broke out backstage in a theater. The clown came out to inform the public. They thought it was a jest and applauded. He repeated his warning. They shouted even louder. So I think the world will come to an end amid the general applause from all the wits who believe that it is a joke.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Sweetest love, I do not go,For weariness of thee,Nor in hope the world can showA fitter love for me;But since that IMust die at last, 'tis best,To use my self in jestThus by feign'd deaths to die.
- John Donne
God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson