...Mark Twain, the earlier John Gay (1685-1732) had asked Alexander Pope to see that his gravestone read: "Life is a Jest, and all Things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it." 16. See Royal Gazette, January II, 1908. Miss Wallace obviously erred in Mark Twain and the Happy Island...

...daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. ~ Joseph Addison, 1672-1719 ~ Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it. ~ John Gay, 1685-1732The most wasted of all days is the day one did not laugh. ~ Sebastien Chamfort,...

...letters engraved upon the pedestal were easy enough to read: James Absalom Paramount 1815-1886 Life's a Jest, And all things show it. I thought so once, But now I know it. depths of his gown, he wiped his eyes, still chuckling. "Excuse me, my dear Miss Dalrymple," he said....

...ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Now Ain't That too bad CHARLES DUPLESSIS, ROSEHILL CEMETERY, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 1907 Life is a jest and all things show it I thought so once, and now I know it JOHN GAY, WESTMINSTER ABBEY, LONDON, ENGLAND Go away — I'm Asleep. JOAN HACKETT,...

...own epitaph Pope and the Duke of Queensberry managed to get it onto his tomb in Westminster Abbey:8 Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once; but now I know it. The layering is ambiguous in precisely the same way as in the frame plays. Existing in the frame of...

...intentions of marrying him. After sending her a birthday card and a big jar of peanut butter stating; "Life is a jest and all things show it. I thought so once and now I know it." She dumped him quickly. She definitely needed someone a lot more romantic, or at...