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  • A jester unemployed is nobodys fool.

    "Fictional character: Hubert Hawkins". "The Court Jester", www.imdb.com. 1955.
  • 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 (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.200, 谷月社
  • If you're demanding a rodeo jester be thrown in the dungeons for mocking the king, don't pretend you support a free country.

    Country   Kings   Support  
  • 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 Talks YOUNG ADULT, the EVIL DEAD Remake, SWEET VALLEY HIGH, Her Directorial Debut, and a Lot More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 16, 2011.
  • 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.

  • My father was a small claims court jester.

    Funny   Father   Humor  
  • Cicero is dead! Cicero is born! The laughter has filled me, filled me so very completely. I am the laughter. I am the jester. The soul that has served as my constant companion for so long has breached the veil of the Void finally and forever. It is now in me. It is me. The world has seen the last of Cicero the man. Behold Cicero, Fool of Hearts - laughter incarnate!

    Laughter   Heart   Men  
  • People need the court jester, so I keep that smile on and keep going out there to do what I do.

    Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. April 25, 2012.
  • 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.

    Kings   Wife   Court  
    Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. April 25, 2012.
  • I'm the out-of-court jester who won't settle, I up the vigilante, I'm a law unto myself but break it anyway! I made a forced landing on the Moebius Strip and now I want to know, which side are you on?

    Law   Want   Sides  
    "I've Got A Nietzsche Trigger Finger!". Essay by Bob Black, 1986.
  • 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.

    "Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. August 15, 2008.
  • The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.

  • 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.

  • The judgement makes no sense at all. It exposes the country, Turkey, to ridicule. It would have been so much better if Ahmet Davotgulu had behaved like a medieval jester, but no such luck for poor Turkey. Its Prime Minister is not taken seriously by too many people.

    Country   Taken   People  
    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

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

  • An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms and rebuild a new world. The problem with cinema today is the dearth of troublemakers. There’s not a rabble-rouser in sight. There was still one, but he went beyond troublemaker to court jester. He clobbered the status quo. That’s Godard. We’re fresh out of ‘bad students.’ You’ll find students masquerading as bad ones, but you won’t find the real article, because a genuine bad student upends everything.

    Art   Real   Sight  
    "Henri Langlois: The Phantom of the Cinémathèque". Documentary, Biography, History, www.imdb.com. 2004.
  • 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.

    Laughter   Soul   Needs  
    "Former 'Onion' editor: Freedom of speech cannot be killed" by Joe Randazzo, www.msnbc.com. January 7, 2015.
  • There comes, even to kings, the time of great weariness. Then the gold of the throne is brass, the silk of the palace becomes drab. The gems in the diadem and upon the fingers of the women sparkle drearily like the ice of white seas; the speech of men is as the empty rattle of a jester's bell and the feel comes of things unreal; even the sun is copper in the sky and the breath of the green ocean is no longer fresh.

    Kings   Ocean   Men  
    Robert E. Howard (2006). “Kull: Exile of Atlantis”, p.83, Del Rey
  • It's been important to cultures throughout history with the court jester and the witch doctor and the shaman - all preach the same thing.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • 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.

    Laughing   Soul   Fancy  
  • January. It was all things. And it was one thing, like a solid door. Its cold sealed the city in a gray capsule. January was moments, and January was a year. January rained the moments down, and froze them in her memory: [...]Every human action seemed to yield a magic. January was a two-faced month, jangling like jester's bells, crackling like snow crust, pure as any beginning, grim as an old man, mysteriously familiar yet unknown, like a word one can almost but not quite define.

    Memories   Men   Two  
  • 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.

    Queens   Kids   Thinking  
  • 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.

    Source: articles.chicagotribune.com
  • 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.

    People   Needs   Roles  
  • Fate is the malevolent little jester sitting up in the heavens and pondering over how ridiculous we humans are and he does his best to make fools out of all of us. And sooner or later he succeeds.

    Fate   Heaven   Sitting  
  • 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.

  • As for the petty little world of journalism, the media demonstrates how it, more than anyone, is careful to traffic only in authorized ideas and wares; while at the same time it fosters, through its antics, the illusion of a free circulation of ideas and opinions - not unlike jesters in a tyrant's court.

    Media   Tyrants   Ideas  
  • An unemployed jester is nobody's fool.

  • I did not get my Spaghetti-O's, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this.

    Last words, March 20, 1995.
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