Quotes About Court Jesters

#1. I'm ready to forgive him for the desire to be a king, but not for wanting to have 23 million court jesters.

Minimaks

#2. If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We can play with Big Ideas because the garish motley of our pulp origins make us seem harmless.

Bruce Sterling

#3. There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the existing chief power. Oppositions which do not express genuine social forces are as trivial, in relation to entrenched power, as the old court jesters.

James Burnham

#4. The idea of vaudeville clowns and court jesters is always to show the flaw, to point out what's not working and why it's not coherent.

John Baldessari

#5. Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters

Saul Bellow

#6. Oftentimes, actors are looked at as court jesters. They are not looked at as deep-thinking, smart people who do many other things or have gifts in other areas.

Goldie Hawn

#7. There is this false perception that comedians can never be serious. It's like from like the era of court jesters.

Jim Gaffigan

#8. So it was with court jesters in the Middle Ages; they could alert the king to dangers that the ministers would not dare to comment on because they were afraid of losing their positions.

Paulo Coelho

#9. Thank you, God, because I am lucky. Also let's face it, it turns out I'm black. And I'm having a career quite different from lots of people, so I feel doubly lucky.

Whoopi Goldberg

#10. If I can be an example of getting sober, then I can be an example for starting over

Macklemore

#11. Take time to improve your knowledge and skills so that you can put a premium on yourself. You don't have to be content in being simply a good doer if you can also become a great teacher.

Jan Mckingley Hilado

#12. While some of the big publishers might give out 200,000 advances, if your book does not hit some of the lists in the second week, they stop paying attention to you.

Caroline Leavitt

#13. I wish I could dance like Michael Jackson. I'd love to be able to have my life exactly the way it is, but with his dance moves.

Donny Osmond

#14. Mewtwo is popular because of his perceived power in the show and games.

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#15. Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their voice doesn't matter; that the system is rigged in favor of the rich or the powerful or some narrow interest.

Barack Obama

#16. Intersections are crash magnets.

Tom Vanderbilt

#17. In the consciousness of eternity, time is not, neither is space. In man's consciousness there appears so much mercy, so much love, that these have been called time and space.

Edgar Cayce

#18. A secret history of the US Government's Nazi-hunting operation concludes that American intelligence officials created a safe haven in the US for Nazis and their collaborators after WW2 and it details decades of clashes, often hidden, with other nations over war criminals here and abroad.

James Morcan

#19. The goal of the artist is not to solve a question irrefutably, but to force people to love life in all its countless, inexhaustible manifestations. If

Leo Tolstoy

#20. Sweden is a great country. What is not so great is that we have a society that, in a way, says it's great if you don't look right, if you don't look left, if you just look straight forward.

Michael Nyqvist

#21. Pleasantly, between the pelting showers, the sunshine gushes down.

William C. Bryant

#22. I like Scott Caan. I think he's a great young kid. I think he's gonna have a really huge career.

Jerry Weintraub