Surely You Jest Quotes

#1. With nothing trembles.
To be afraid of nothing for no reason. And having to live with that nothing until dawn.

Ray Bradbury

#2. If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#3. Surely this feisty, argumentative female could not be his life mate? Docile, he'd specifically written docile when he'd filled in his request for a mate. And this was who the spirits of his ancestors had chosen? A celestial jest on their part perhaps?

Eve Langlais

#4. The only music I was listening to for ages was old soul. So I wasn't listening to a lot of new music - especially indie music.

Florence Welch

#5. We have all this digital equipment, and sometimes this analog stuff comes back and people say "Oh my god!" It makes a different sounding music.

Sam De Jong

#6. I made love to her in the sweetness of the weary morning. Then, two tired angels of some kind, hung-up forlornly in an LA shelf, having found the closest and most delicious thing in life together, we fell asleep and slept till late afternoon.

Jack Kerouac

#7. I've also been known to cry during MasterCard commercials.

Kimberly Raye

#8. History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

Johan Huizinga

#9. The defence of democracy must consist in making anti-democratic experiences too costly for those who try them; much more costly than a democratic compromise

Karl Popper

#10. Just take it easy and celebrate the malleable reality. You see, nothing is ever at is seems, yeah this life is but a dream.

Jason Mraz

#11. Man's primary purpose is not to be happy but to continue to live, to continue to travel - happily or unhappily - on the path of life!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. I don't really plan what comes out of my mouth, and that's what makes most of my lyrics entertaining.

Kesha

#13. I just felt like I was making people angry because I wouldn't wear the frilly bows.

Thora Birch

#14. Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

Andre Gide

#15. The Skeleton
Chattering finch and water-fly
Are not merrier than I;
Here among the flowers I lie
Laughing everlastingly.
No: I may not tell the best;
Surely, friends, I might have guessed
Death was but the good King's jest,
It was hid so carefully.

G.K. Chesterton