Quotes about Jest
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
Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.
— Samuel Johnson
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
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
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
God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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