Mountebanks Quotes
- For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap… — Arthur Rimbaud
- The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same… — H. L. Mencken
- Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man… — Thomas Jefferson