A Quote by Miguel de Cervantes

Jests that give pains are no jests.

Miguel de Cervantes

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Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish - Novelist
September 29, 1547 - April 23, 1616

Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.

Hippocrates

Eyes and Priests Bear no Jests.

Benjamin Franklin

The jests of the rich are ever successful.

Oliver Goldsmith

He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

William Shakespeare

Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.

Agnes Repplier

Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

Thornton Wilder

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

Paul Simon

Beware of biting jests; the more truth they carry with them, the greater wounds they give, the greater smarts they cause, and the greater scars they leave behind them.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.

Pamela Hansford Johnson

God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.

Edgar Allan Poe

Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.

Edgar Allan Poe

Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.

Hippocrates

All nations love the same jests and tales, Jews, Christians, and Mahometans, and the same translated suffice for all.

Henry David Thoreau

Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale.

Oliver Goldsmith

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