Quotes of Jest - somelinesforyou

“ Laugh and the world laughs with you, Weep, and you weep alone; For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. ”

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“ Jests that give pains are no jests. ”

- Miguel de Cervantes

“ After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked. ”

- Matthew

“ Judge of a jest when you have done laughing. ”

- William Lloyd

“ If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes. ”

- Helen Giangregorio

“ All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. ”

- Paul Simon

“ Sometimes I go off and er.....(laughs with people laughing in the background)...I er.......(laughs)......I may just go off now as a matter of fact. ”

- Brent Spiner

“ The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh. ”

- Johann Friedrich von Schiller

“ Laugh and the world laughs with you, be prompt and you dine alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, but has trouble enough of its own. ”

- Gerald Barzan

“ If I get a hard audience they are not going to get away until they laugh. Those seven laughs a minute — I've got to have them. ”

- Ken Dodd

“ Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ I live alone, and it's good. I stick on a video, watch telly. I am a bit lonely sometimes, but I laugh at my own jokes and dance around by myself when I'm making something to eat. I'd like to do a bit more reading maybe. I've tried, but somehow I just can't get into that book thing yet. ”

- Robbie Williams

“ Better lose a jest than a friend. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you. ”

- Pamela Hansford Johnson

“ We make everything funny, you wouldn't believe the things we laugh at. We're always laughing-people think we're completely mad! ”

- Emma Bunton

“ Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it. ”

- John Gay

“ A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. ”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“ Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry — and the world laughs harder. ”

- Evan Esar

“ The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself. ”

- Johann Friedrich von Schiller

“ He who laughs last didn't get the joke at first. ”

- Evan Esar

“ He who laughs last didn't get it. ”

- Helen Giangregorio

“ A living drollery: now I will believe That there are unicorns. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone. ”

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“ Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do. ”

- Robert K. Mueller

“ Humor helps us to think out of the box. The average child laughs about 400 times per day, the average adult laughs only 15 times per day. What happened to the other 385 laughs? ”

- Unknown

“ I get just as much of a thrill out of constructing a good sentence that gets a laugh at the end as I do from a joke. ”

- Julian Clary

“ If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke? ”

- Stephen Wright

“ If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke? ”

- Steven Wright
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