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From Shane's Point of View: Jester talking to Shane: "What's the matter? You afraid you'd bite your skinny little girlfriend?" Jester laughed. "She's already someone else's, you know. I can smell the bite on her. He's marked her." Myrnin. "Shut up," I said, and kicked him in the face. -- Rachel Caine
Oh, talking is not so bad as that," said the Jester. "True, most people say only silly things when they speak. But it's easier to ignore them if you're saying silly things yourself. -- Pseudonymous Bosch
In the name of God!" said Gurth, "how came they prisoners? and to whom?" "Our master was too ready to fight," said the Jester, "and Athelstane was not ready enough, and no other person was ready at all. -- Walter Scott
Jesters do oft prove prophets. -- William Shakespeare
The jester is brother to the sage. -- Arthur Koestler
How ill white hairs become a fool and jester! -- William Shakespeare
The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court. -- Joseph Wood Krutch
In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen. -- Ted Koppel
There is this false perception that comedians can never be serious. It's like from like the era of court jesters. -- Jim Gaffigan
Think about the fool who by his virtue can be found in a most unusual situation playing jester to the clown. -- Gordon Lightfoot
If you're demanding a rodeo jester be thrown in the dungeons for mocking the king, don't pretend you support a free country. -- Steve Stockman
When the king gets depressed, he doesn't call for his wife. He doesn't call for the cook. He calls for the court jester. -- Richard Simmons
It's been important to cultures throughout history with the court jester and the witch doctor and the shaman - all preach the same thing. -- RuPaul
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
I do consider myself a clown and a court jester, and I do love to make people laugh, whether they're laughing with me or at me. -- Richard Simmons
Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama or a dramatic comedy. -- Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus. -- Seth Godin
A lot of people think that fame is the Band-Aid that cures their ills. I'm no kid, and I knew long before I got famous that wasn't the deal. I'm the court jester, not the queen. -- Sharon Stone
Satire must always accompany any free society. It is an absolute necessity. Even in the most repressive medieval kingdoms, they understood the need for the court jester, the one soul allowed to tell the truth through laughter, -- Joe Randazzo
JESTER, n. An officer attached to the king's household to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances . . . the king's own conduct and decrees [being] sufficiently ridiculous for the amusement not only of his court but of all mankind. -- Ambrose Bierce
My way is the sensitive, emotional way, because that's who I am. A day doesn't go by where I don't sit and cry, listening to the stories. I try to be the clown and court jester and make people laugh. -- Richard Simmons
I'm a real paradox. Because I'm a very serious person, and I take my work very seriously. But I wrap it up in a court jester and a clown and make people laugh and make them feel good about themselves. -- Richard Simmons
I didn't even know how to talk to people, I didn't know how to talk to the press. I was just a jester. And I still feel that way. But, I mean, what haven't I learned? Everything that I know is new information because I was starting with nothing. -- Diablo Cody
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
It is unpardonable conceit not to laugh at your own jokes. Joking is undignified; that is why it is so good for one's soul. Do not fancy you can be a detached wit and avoid being a buffoon; you cannot. If you are the Court Jester you must be the Court Fool. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
A jester, a bad character. -- Blaise Pascal
A jester unemployed is nobodys fool. -- Danny Kaye
An unemployed jester is nobody's fool. -- Danny Kaye
An unemployed court jester is nobody's fool. -- Kevin Hart
My father was a small claims court jester. -- Steven Wright
I consider myself a court jester - motivator. -- Richard Simmons
My parents wanted me to have an honorable profession and not to be a jester. -- Philippe Petit
People need the court jester, so I keep that smile on and keep going out there to do what I do. -- Richard Simmons
I would be more than her guardian and her champion and the jester who made her laugh. I would be her everything, if I could. -Puck -- Julie Kagawa
The essayist . . . can pull on any sort of shirt, be any sort of person, according to his mood or his subject matter - philosopher, scold, jester, raconteur, confidant, pundit, devil's advocate, enthusiast. -- E. B. White
Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother. Thank you for my laughter. Thank you for my friend. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
A king's staff of office, the sign and symbol of his authority. It was originally a mace with which the sovereign admonished his jester and vetoed ministerial measures by breaking the bones of their proponents. -- Ambrose Bierce

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