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He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.


William Shakespeare

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His wit and irony - particularly when he uses them to condemn superstition - are inimitable
BERTRAND RUSSELL His foe was folly and his weapon wit.
ANTHONY HOPE He is a heavy eater of beef. Methinks it doth harm to his wit. Wm Shakespeare in Twelfth Night.
WM SHAKESPEARE This fellow is wise enough to play the fool;
And to do that well craves a kind of wit:
He ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Where's Kraven? Is he stalking me too?"
His mouth went tight. "I'm not stalking you.
MICHELLE ROWEN I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
TARA REID A smart man uses his strengths to the best of his abilities, but a true genius creates his weaknesse...
CARLOSLARA Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. Answer a fool accordin...
BIBLE Hilton really came into his own this year and I'm very happy for him. He got a lot bigger, a lot qui...
JASON FRASER A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drop...
JOHNNY BENCH Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
NICHOLAS SPARKS His goal was to breed a good horse and he accomplished it. He enjoyed this horse.
BOB HOLTHUS Even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head and keeps pecking away until ...
COLEMAN COX He uses his sources as a drunkard uses lampposts; not to light him upon his way, but to dissimulate ...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Even the lonely woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head
JOE MARCUCCI The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse o...
ROBERT CAPA He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in "Hier...
SAMUEL JOHNSON This figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut, Wherein the graver ha...
BEN JONSON He is a great artist. He may be the finest artist among American writers since William Faulkner and ...
HAROLD BLOOM the dragonrider. Ulric scowled darkly, and stomped over to take it from me. He slung it over his sho...
NICOLE CONWAY To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both.
ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much.
NINA LACOUR Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
HENRY FIELDING He kept his wit and humor right to the bitter end.
JOANNE CORTESE [Noah] is a good athlete. He definitely uses his height to his advantage.
JAI LEWIS A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all th...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes.
BIBLE He knows his subject inside out and has a sense of timing and a wit that few people can match.
MARK NICHOLAS For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, j...
C.S. LEWIS He's a good horseman on top of a horse. When he's on a horse he can tell you a lot about that horse;...
GARY CONTESSA I fit my mouth to his and he tastes like water and smells like fresh air. I drag my hand from his ne...
VERONICA ROTH He uses a lot of big words, and his sentences run from here back to the airport.
CAROLYN CHUTE As I remember his laugh, there was nothing mad about it, it was more like the laugh of someone who h...
GUY SAJER If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
WILLIAM BLAKE Once he got his first match under his belt, he was a little disappointed that he didn't wrestle (Huf...
DARREN WEBER I am a close friend of Robert Loggia. And I just love how, with actors, there's the screen perso...
LUANNE RICE His approach, potential infatuation and stalking-like behavior are historical problems,
ROBERT PHILLIPS Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to ...
LOUIS FARRAKHAN When the devil wants to punish his worshippers, he uses the trick of karma.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Richie is a guitar miracle. Bon Jovi couldn't do without him. He gets amazing sounds out of his inst...
JON BON JOVI A.J. is a shooter. When he shoots the puck he manages to squeeze it between players. The puck just j...
BILL BESTWICK When he walked out into the lots to catch his horse, he felt grown and complete for the first time i...
LARRY MCMURTRY He smiled and bent forward, a hand on each knee, his truculence gleaming through his smile like a st...
PAULA FOX He was hanging his head, his coat wouldn't turn - it was almost like he was depressed, ... Richard d...
BOB BONE He is a guy that the other team must know where he is all the time. Sharper shoots the ball that wel...
BRANDON HEATH Beware the self-righteous man, for he will destroy the world many times over before he sees his foll...
STEWART STAFFORD Everyone looks at his tactics and uses what he did to this day,
CRAIG NELSON She was the wish of his life. He didn’t know how else to say it. He didn’t even know that he cou...
C.J. CARLYON At his heart, Shakespeare was a YA author. So many of his plays are set with high school-aged charac...
ERIC WALTERS The horse went over backward once and came down. He got his left foot out of the stirrup but he coul...
JOE FERRER But that's always a certain way to recognise a facist: when he's more powerful he kills everything t...
ANDREJ NIKOLAIDIS He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have had a very low standard of it in his...
WILLIAM HAZLITT He ran flat. He was the first horse beaten. He just isn't showing his form at the moment.
FRANKIE DETTORI William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan,...
KENNETH TYNAN I think his best asset is his shooting percentage. That might come from shot selection. He doesn't s...
RANDY SMITHPETERS “Only the idea of death makes a warrior sufficiently detached so that he is capable of abandoning ...
CARLOS CASTANEDA A justice with grave justices shall sit; He praise their wisdom, they admire his wit.
JOHN GAY Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and w...
ANDREW COYLE BRADLEY Death does not concern me. He who takes his first step uses perhaps his last shoes. (Halmalo)
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JAMES SHAPIRO The horse was moaning and (Smith) was moaning, ... He looked up at me, and he had a bad look on his ...
CHRIS CLARK Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
GEORGE HERBERT I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me tha...
JAMES M. BARRIE I know not, sir whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that ...
JAMES M. BARRIE I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that...
JAMES M. BARRIE I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that...
JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE It wasn't a bad race and one that will help him, it being his first out of the season. We were stalk...
STEVE ASMUSSEN Give a man a horse he can ride, give a man a boat he can sail; and his rank and wealth, his strength...
JAMES THOMSON He always had a sense of who he is, ... The William Rehnquist you saw then [was] like the William Re...
DAVID LEITCH I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invi...
ELLIE GOULDING The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.
LORD BYRON When we train a horse to do a certain job, we're training the horse to be like a soldier, and ye...
IAN MILLAR Before he left, Aunt William pressed a sovereign into his hand guiltily, as if it were conscience mo...
ADA LEVERSON He doth nothing but talk of his horse. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The Horse and His Rider A horse soldier took the utmost pains with his charger. As long as the war ...
AESOP I think Shakespeare, at his heart, was just the way all of us are that make movies: He wanted to ent...
KELLY ASBURY He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
STEPHEN LEACOCK The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; ...
ATOM EGOYAN I felt like an undeveloped photograph that he was printing, my image rising to the surface under his...
JANET FITCH Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He does not want to sign His name.
ANATOLE FRANCE Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his mere...
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HANK BLALOCK When a man curls his lip, when he uses ridicule, when he grows angry, you have touched a raw nerve i...
SHEILA ROWBOTHAM He guides my fingers under his hair to the nape of his neck. To the shape of a crescent moon.
PAULA WESTON He chose to prey upon a child for sexual gratification. … He was under the influence of his urges, ...
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AMBROSE BIERCE He had gotten separated from his boat. His friend had heard him yell for help. He proceeded toward h...
CAPT. EMMIT KANE When a person loses his goal, he comes under the control of evil
SUNDAY ADELAJA He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, something better than his dog,...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his d...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l...
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GREG AIELLO I wouldn’t put it past you,” Kaldar said. “Or him. Who knows what the hell he might do?”
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The appetite ...
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Thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge:
To business...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. Hamlet
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Knowledge is the wing whereby we fly to Heaven.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet do I fear thy nature. It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness To catch the nearest wa...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Have you the heart? When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows-- The...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A little more than kin, and less than kind!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But jealous souls will not be answered so; They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealou...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock The meat it fee...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I do beseech you-- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess (As I confess it is my nature's p...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to com...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My plenteous joys, Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet 'tis greater skill In a true hate to pray they have their will; The very devils cannot pla...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-w...
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