Circus Quotes · Page 6

The circus is the only fun you can buy that is good for you.

— Ernest Hemingway

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt

— Juvenal

I read the Romans had bread and circuses. We had home relief and boxing.

— Jake LaMotta

Life is a circus ring, with some moments more spectacular than others.

— Janusz Korczak

I never got to see the circus... I was always in love with being a trapeze artist, though.

— Keala Settle

I avoid the media circus, keep my head down and try to keep growing and learning things.

— Georgie Fame

Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.

— Erin Morgenstern

You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town

— Anne Lamott

Forty years ago, the players were like a travelling circus - we went everywhere together and were pretty good friends.

— Rod Laver

The industrys a circus with a bunch of clown with it. You hear it from the workers, I dont fuck around with…

— Jadakiss

“The second officer had turned fully to look down at Vincent's saws. “Those are for dissecting dwarves and children,” The Saw Man…

— Jackie Trippier Holt

“You only get one chance at this circus called life. Don't sit in the crowd watchin' it happen. You jump right in…

— Kim Holden

Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.

— George Bernard Shaw

A circus here, a circus there; here today, gone tomorrow. Big Brother watching you. Fear eats the soul.

— David Peace

“That it's possible to be against the circus, not because you're afraid to die there, but because it's wicked and wrong. ~Aurelia, 152”

— Lynne Reid Banks

“All the world's a circus. Sometimes you choose your act and sometimes it's assigned to you.”

— Mia Sheridan

And so it is that we do not exist until we do; and then it is that we play with our world…

— Malaclypse the Younger

“When I was little, my mother told me there are basically two kinds of people in the world: town people and circus…

— Cathy Day

“Painted and smiling, I balance on my trapeze. Luka is poised ten metres away, his muscles shining under the lights. The wooden…

— Kirsty Logan

I've worked behind counters serving food, and I've lived on the circus train, and I've led bicycle tours in Eastern Europe and…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

Beauty is Nature in perfection; circularity is its chief attribute. Behold the full moon, the enchanting golf ball, the domes of splendid…

— O. Henry

The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result of bread…

— Julie Burchill

There's a small balcony here, the door is open and I can see the lights of the cars on the Harbor Freeway…

— Charles Bukowski

I dropped my juggling balls and my face grew embarrassed. It wasn't until then that I looked around the circus of life…

— Stefanie Schneider

“The man standing in the booth placing the tickets into her hands for the fun-house loomed largely in front of her with…

— Jaime Allison Parker

The Romans always wanted bread and circuses-food and entertainement! As we destroy their city, I will offer them both. Behold, a sample!"…

— Anonymous

“A ten-year-old Amanda wandering around the sights and sounds of a carnival. Trying to take it all in as such an event…

— Jaime Allison Parker

Here I am, your one man circus freak show, having bled out for mother Russia, having desperately tried to get to you,…

— Paullina Simons

“I find I think of myself not as a writer so much as someone who provides a gateway, a tangential route for…

— Erin Morgenstern

“Life is a great big beautiful three-ring circus. There are those on the floor making their lives among the heads of lions…

— Christopher Hawke

I think I'll be a clown when I get grown,' said Dill. Jem and I stopped in our tracks. Yes sir, a…

— Harper Lee

Despite popular opinion, there are no important parallels between Madonna and Monroe, who was a virtuoso comedienne but who was in secure,…

— Camille Paglia

Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.

— Juvenal

Circus with animal shows should be forbidden, there are enough other thrilling options.

— Bill Kaulitz

How can you have a rock n' roll circus without a midget?

— Nikki Sixx

When you don't win games everyone tries to stir the pot but this is the circus we're in.

— Quique Setien

A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.

— Burt Lancaster

A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.

— Francis Ford Coppola

I'm shocked to be saying this, but as a child, I never went to a circus. It cost too much.

— Jerry Lewis

That's bad luck: three on a midget. From "At The Circus

— Groucho Marx