"Shall we their fond pageant see?Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

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"Shall we their fond pageant see?Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

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"Lord what fools these mortals be!"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Dramatic uprising of stupidity can start from nowhere and only be seen when it reaches it's climax."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty cover for the bones."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another."

Joseph Roux, French Clergyman

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"It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery."

Jonathan Mayhew, American Clergyman

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"The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity."

Harriet Beecher Stowe, American Author

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"Folly always knows the answer."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"A law can be both economic folly and constitutional."

Antonin Scalia, American Judge

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"The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself."

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"Deal mildly with his youth; for young hot colts, being rag's, do rage the more."

Youth

"That in the captain's but a choleric word,Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy."

Authority

"Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites."

Love

"Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing weigh,Your vows to her and me, put in two scales,Will even weigh, and both as light as tales."

Trust

"If I be waspish, best beware my sting."

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"For all that beauty that doth cover theeIs but the seemly raiment of my heart,Which in thy breast doth live, as thine in me.How can I then be elder than thou art?"

Love

"There's a great spirit gone! Thus did I desire it.What our contempts doth often hurl from us,We wish it ours again. The present pleasure,By revolution lowering, does becomeThe opposite of itself. She's good, being gone.The hand could pluck her back that shoved her on."

Love

"For thy sweet love remembr'd such wealth bringsThat then, I scorn to change my state with kings."

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"The death of each days life."

Life

"BOYETA mark! O, mark but that mark! A mark, says my lady!Let the mark have a prick in't, to mete at, if it may be.MARIAWide o' the bow hand! i' faith, your hand is out.COSTARDIndeed, a' must shoot nearer, or he'll ne'er hit the clout.BOYETAn if my hand be out, then belike your hand is in.COSTARDThen will she get the upshoot by cleaving the pin.MARIACome, come, you talk greasily; your lips grow foul.COSTARDShe's too hard for you at pricks, sir: challenge her to bowl.BOYETI fear too much rubbing. Good night, my good owl.Exeunt BOYET and MARIA."

Life