The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true!
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Humor was a good way to hide the pain.
Jesters do oft prove prophets.
I did not get my Spaghetti-O's, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this.
Laughter is a most healthful exertion; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted.
How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!
The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.
In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
Despite my vanity, I fear for my sanity.
Jesters do often prove prophets.
A jester, a bad character.
The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the Roman legionnaires would sing, calling Julius Caesar "queen", alluding, in a very transparent way, to his real, or presumed, homosexual escapades.
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!
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.
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.
Think about the fool who by his virtue can be found in a most unusual situation playing jester to the clown.
My father was a small claims court jester.
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.
I'm ready to forgive him for the desire to be a king, but not for wanting to have 23 million court jesters.
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