Quotes with jests

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

  Paul Simon
  American singer-songwriter (1941 - 2003)
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• He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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• He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• I gleaned jests at home from obsolete farces.

  Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• Jests that give pains are no jests.

  Miguel de Cervantes
  Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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• The jests of the rich are ever successful.

  Oliver Goldsmith
  Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• imagination
• successful
• obsolete
• farces
• facts
• scars

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