88 Jest Quotes
Following is our list of jest quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about infinite jest.
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Famous Jest Quotes
To jazz, or not to jazz, there is no question! — Louis Armstrong
And that's the way it is. — Walter Cronkite
Life is a zoo in a jungle. — Peter De Vries
Jazz is the continual pulsation of the now. — Pat Martino
Jazz is about being in the moment. — Herbie Hancock
Every object, every being...is a jar full of delight. — Rumi
im am who i am i can't change — Harry Styles
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. — Henri Bergson
Hipness is not a state of mind, It's a fact of life! — Cannonball Adderley
Make jokes. No stress. Love. Live Life. Proceed. Progress. — Lil Wayne
Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish. — Charlie Chaplin
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly — Henri Bergson
Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend. — George Gershwin
everything changes, nothing perishes — Ovid
Life is but an endless series of experiments. — Mahatma Gandhi
Short Jest Quotes
- I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it. — David Foster Wallace
- Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none, although they give occasion. — George Washington
- He jests at scars that never felt a wound. — William Shakespeare
- The really important kind of freedom involves...being able truly to care about other people... — David Foster
- A lot of truth is said in jest. — Eminem
- All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. — Paul Simon
- Jesting and levity lead a man to lewdness. — Rabbi Akiva
- Many a true word is spoken in jest. — English Proverbs
- The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest. — Henry David Thoreau
- Many a true word hath been spoken in jest. — William Shakespeare
Said In Jest Quotes
You ask: What is it that philosophers have called qualitative states? I answer, only half in jest: As Louis Armstrong said when asked what jazz is, 'If you got to ask, you ain't never gonna get to know.' — Ned Block
Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but find it out. — Laurence Sterne
He said she went around with her feelings out in front of her with an arm around the feelings' windpipe and a Glock 9mm. to the feelings' temple like a terrorist with a hostage, daring you to shoot. — David Foster Wallace
As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest. — Joanna Russ
It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there must be something mysterious about the normal law since mathematicians think it is a law of nature whereas physicists are convinced that it is a mathematical theorem. — Henri Poincare
It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management performance. It forces the manager to think about what he is doing and to be able to explain his actions and behavior. — Peter Drucker
I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant. — Gottfried Leibniz
Take her to the kitchen,” came the order. “If she lies, throw her in the cauldron." “He was jesting about the cauldron, wasn’t he? You cannot have a cauldron big enough for a person?” Bard halted, sighed, looked at her with those wide, liquid eyes.“We,” he said, “have knives. — Nalini Singh
Infinite Jest Quotes
I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it. — David Foster Wallace
Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else. — David Foster Wallace
In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote. — David Foster Wallace
You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do. — David Foster Wallace
It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak. — David Foster Wallace
Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?" "I give." "You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog. — David Foster Wallace
Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you. — David Foster Wallace
It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know. — David Foster Wallace
You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard. ... How promising you are as a Student of the Game is a function of what you can pay attention to without running away. — David Foster Wallace
You know, I don't want to be offensive. But 'Infinite Jest' [regarded by many as Wallace's masterpiece] is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it. He can't think, he can't write. There's no discernible talent. — Harold Bloom
People Writing About Jest
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
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 Henri Bergson |
69 | 872 |
 William Shakespeare |
4052 | 36000 |
 Louis Armstrong |
75 | 1794 |
 Walter Cronkite |
102 | 1483 |
 Peter De Vries |
77 | 833 |
 Herbie Hancock |
97 | 499 |
More Jest Quotes
Know, O beloved, that man was not created in jest or at random, but marvelously made and for some great end. Although he is not form everlasting, yet he lives for ever; and though his body is mean and earthly, yet his spirit is lofty and divine — Al-Ghazali
I believe I understand anti-Semitism which is a very complex movement. I see it as a Jew, but without hatred or fear. I recognize what is anti-Semitism is rude jesting, vulgar jealousy of métier, hereditary prejudice; but also what can be considered as in fact legitimate defence. — Theodor Herzl
Of Love--may God exalt you! -the first part is jesting, and the last part is right earnestness. So majestic are its diverse aspects, they are too subtle to be described; their reality can only be apprehended by personal experience. Love is neither disapproved by Religion, nor prohibited by the Law; for every heart is in God's hands. — Ibn Hazm
It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. — Aristotle
If you are affronted it is better to pass it by in silence, or with a jest, though with some dishonor, than to endeavor revenge. If you can keep reason above passion, that and watchfulness will be your best defenders. — Isaac Newton
When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier. — Rudyard Kipling
Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, Nods, and Becks, and wreathed Smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. — John Milton
Man's life is but a jest, A dream, a shadow, bubble, air, a vapor at the best. — George Walter
The preacher who jests and jokes with his people all week will soon find that he cannot stand in his pulpit on Sunday with power to reprove, rebuke and exhort. He may be the life of the party but it will be the death of the prophet. — Vance Havner
Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of your difficulties but overcome them. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
....there is an ending [to Infinite Jest] as far as I'm concerned. Certain kind of parallel lines are supposed to start converging in such a way that an "end" can be projected by the reader somewhere beyond the right frame. If no such convergence or projection occured to you, then the book's failed for you. — David Foster Wallace
The one from among the Muslims who recites the Qur'an but in the end finds his way to hell, is considerd to be among those that have taken the word of Allah in jest. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. — Paul the Apostle
A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast, and say he wounded you in jest, by way of balm for healing. — William Cowper
The boys throw rocks at the frogs in jest. But the frogs die in earnest. — Bion of Borysthenes
Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart. — Samuel Johnson
May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest. — Charles Lamb
It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless it is that man, the ephemeral inhabitant of an insignificant planet, with all his pain and all his striving is but a jest in an eternal mind. — W. Somerset Maugham
A prison! heav'ns, I loath the hated name, Famine's metropolis, the sink of shame, A nauseous sepulchre, whose craving womb Hourly inters poor mortals in its tomb; By ev'ry plague and ev'ry ill possess'd, Ev'n purgatory itself to thee 's a jest. — Tom Brown, Jr.
The human animal ... is ... neither male nor female ... And if I am allowed to jest a little in passing, I have a joke that is not altogether irrelevant: nothing resembles a male cat on the windowsill more than a female cat. — Marie de Gournay
Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world. — Alexander Pope
Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification. — Helen Rowland
It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die. — Plutarch
I jest, of course; premature ejaculation isn't a laughing matter for anyone, except for your friends when you tell them about it on the phone the next morning. My first marriage ended because the main event was invariably over before my husband got his socks off. — Julie Burchill
The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh. — Friedrich von Schiller
Oh sirs, deal with sin as sin, and speak of heaven and hell as they are, and not as if you were in jest. — John Flavel
I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
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