We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
It's all a farce, - these tales they tell About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o'er field and dell, Because the… — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
The affectionate farce I make of him ignores the ways I feel his lack of love for me. But we are managing. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines." "Maybe that’s why… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
The north remembers, Lord Davos. The north remembers, and the mummer’s farce is almost done. My son is home. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Progress is a farce because man's head and hand have created wonders that stun the imagination, but his heart does not keep… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
[Vathek] has, in parts, been called, but to some judgments, never is, dull: it is certainly in parts, grotesque, extravagant and even… — William Thomas Beckford Copy Share Image
We are either a United people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all maters of general concern act… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The difference between farce and humour in literature is, I suppose, that farce strums louder and louder on one string, while humour… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations. — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Reading history, one rarely gets the feeling of the true nature of scientific development, in which the element of farce is as… — David Gross Copy Share Image
To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Believers often forget that most atheists used to be religious, that many non-believers used to think they had a personal relationship with… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Let's put it this way. I question whether 6 million Jews actually died in Nazi death camps. There are two major sources… — David Duke Copy Share Image
“Even amidst tragedy there is laughter, sometimes farce. The degree of farce depends on who is running the tragedy.” — Daniel Prokop Copy Share Image
Everybody was cratered after Copenhagen. If the movie had worked the way that it should have, if it had been scripted by… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
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