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folly and a farce.


James McElroy

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JIM KELLY It has gone from a smooth operation to a fuss and now a farce.
DAVID STARKEY Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
SIR JOHN MORTIMER It's the most horrible experience of my life, ... a farce.
JACK RUSSELL This does turn the convoy into a bit of a farce,
ALAN GREENE This is a sheer farce, this is not a real trial.
ALEXANDER MILINKEVICH It's meant to be satire, farce.
TORY DOBRIN Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.
TOM ROBBINS a political farce which the leftists are playing against the right.
VACLAV KLAUS The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
JEAN ANOUILH Folly and Glory
LARRY MCMURTRY Life is too serious to do farce comedy.
BUSTER KEATON La vie est une farce, apprends à rire.
MARIE-CLAIRE BLAIS This is a kangaroo court. Do you know what that is? It's a farce.
DON TALBOT A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
KARL MARX Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.
JANE AUSTEN The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom too fine spun
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THOMAS FULLER Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may . . . readily degene...
RT. HON. WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE Exactness is the sublimity of fools. [Fr., L'exactitude est le sublime des sots.]
WILLIAM COWPER Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping bucke...
WILLIAM COWPER The solemn fog; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge.
WILLIAM COWPER To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.
CHARLES CHURCHILL The shortest follies are the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]
PIERRE CHARRON Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
GEORGE CHAPMAN Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Fool me no fools.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him. [Fr., Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot...
NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable work...
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BIBLE The folly of one man is the fortune of another.
FRANCIS BACON All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd. And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) A fool must now and then be right by chance.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) More knave than fool.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. Answer a fool accordin...
BIBLE Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion. [Sp., Mas acompanados y panigu...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) There has to be a more satisfactory answer than let's do more of the same. It's a bit of folly to sa...
ANGELA KELLEY He is a fool Who only sees the mischiefs that are past.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") HEATHEN, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.
AMBROSE BIERCE HEATHEN, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel. Ac...
AMBROSE BIERCE MAUSOLEUM, n. The final and funniest folly of the rich.
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL ... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never thi...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT The New Testament, compared with the Old, is like a farce of one act
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PHILIP GUEDALLA A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.
ANTONIN SCALIA No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism
WINSTON CHURCHILL Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.
GEORGE PIERCE BAKER There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]
GEORGE HERBERT Where lives the man that has not tried, How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!
SIR WALTER SCOTT To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate pe...
PAULO FREIRE I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.
IRWIN WINKLER Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Beauty and folly are generally companions.
BALTASAR GRACIAN Beauty and folly are old companions.
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BILL HADER The election is a state-managed farce. It can only damage the future of the country.
KAPIL SHRESTHA It is a farce. If they couldn't form a government till now, how will they lead a country?
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ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL This so-called election is a total farce. No citizen or democratic party is willing to participate.
KUNDAN ARYAL There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
MARK TWAIN There are times when one would like to end the whole human race, and finish the farce.
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CHARLIE WHITEHURST The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure.
PAT BUCHANAN When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS The House of Commons is the longest running farce in the West End.
CYRIL SMITH History always repeats itself twice: first time as tragedy, second time as farce.
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LEBRON JAMES When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.
LEBRON JAMES I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.
LEBRON JAMES I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.
LEBRON JAMES Last year, I was on Threat Matrix. We were on Thursday against Friends and Survivor; so this year it...
JAMES DENTON There's nothing wrong with falling in love and sharing your life with someone.
LILY JAMES