Top 22 Quotes About Jesters

#1. 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

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

Minimaks

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#3. 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

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#4. 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

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#5. 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

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#6. Obviously those who burn to be professional jesters mean that they want to be successful comedians. And those are always an elite, microscopic portion of the population. But oh, how they try.

Dick Cavett

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#7. Kings kill; jesters don't; therefore the jesters of the kings are more valuable than the kings!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Saul Bellow

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#9. Laughter is a most healthful exercise; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted; and the custom prevalent among our forefathers, of exciting it at table by jesters and buffoons, was in accordance with true medical principles.

Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

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#10. Living in beauty can dull your appreciation for such things.

J. Lynn Else

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#11. I seem to be stuck in the '60s, and my favorite music, cars, and women's fashion come from that era. And the sense of social rebellion. It was a good time for a lot of things.

Amber Heard

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#12. 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

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

Jim Gaffigan

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#14. Aye, then. Come and dance with the Ech'lon. You can be me bloody retinue. King o' Fools and 'is merry band o' jesters. If they don't laugh us out o' the tower, it'll be a bleedin' miracle.

Bec McMaster

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#15. There's something wildy decadent about the young-star lifestyle, and I just don't really see the point. I got my partying out of my system in college.

Anne Hathaway

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#16. Jesters do oft prove prophets.

William Shakespeare

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#17. amortized? Put differently, the vast majority of individuals, including wealthy individuals and families, find it hard to think outside the box and consider the possibilities being discussed here.

Thomas J. Anderson

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#18. If it's fiction, then it better be true.

Sherman Alexie

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#19. The world map looks smaller than ever before.

Max Azria

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#20. Wormholes are a gravitational phenomena. Or imaginary gravitational phenomena, as the case may be.

Jonathan Nolan

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#21. In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

Ted Koppel

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#22. Jesters do often prove prophets.

Joseph Addison

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