74 Quotations with Jest.
- 1. Aristotle: Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which wil ...
- 2. Plutarch: Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vi ...
- 3. Ambrose Bierce: CABBAGE, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man ...
- 4. Ambrose Bierce: CANONICALS, n. The motley worm by Jesters of the Court of Heaven.
- 5. Ambrose Bierce: HEAD-MONEY, n. A capitation tax, or poll-tax.
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- 6. Ambrose Bierce: JESTER, n. An officer formerly attached to a king's household, whose business it ...
- 7. Ambrose Bierce: KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a "crowned head," although h ...
- 8. Ambrose Bierce: KING'S EVIL, n. A malady that was formerly cured by the touch of the sovereign, ...
- 9. Ambrose Bierce: MAJESTY, n. The state and title of a king. Regarded with a just contempt by the ...
- 10. Ambrose Bierce: OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running a ...
- 11. Ambrose Bierce: SCEPTER, n. A king's staff of office, the sign and symbol of his authority. It w ...
- 12. Ambrose Bierce: SCIMETAR, n. A curved sword of exceeding keenness, in the conduct of which certa ...
- 13. Ambrose Bierce: SOUL, n. A spiritual entity concerning which there hath been brave disputation. ...
- 14. Ambrose Bierce: TREE, n. A tall vegetable intended by nature to serve as a penal apparatus, thou ...
- 15. Richard Brinsley Sheridan: He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
- 16. William Shakespeare: O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible,
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- 17. William Shakespeare: A jest's prosperity lies in the ear
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- 18. William Shakespeare: The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
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- 19. William Shakespeare: This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
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- 20. William Shakespeare: Now is the winter of our discontent
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