Lear Fool Quotes

#1. As he walked along, consciously enjoying the early coolness of the morning, he turned and looked behind him. People often do this and are usually surprised to find that there is some reason for turning around. Sometimes there is no apparent reason and they wonder why they did it. ("Ordeal By Water")

P.C. Wren

#2. I've always been a composer dependent on texts.

David Del Tredici

#3. In Shakespeare's world, characters cannot trust their senses. Is the ghost in Hamlet true and truthful, or is it a demon, tempting young Hamlet into murderous sin? Is Juliet dead or merely sleeping? Does Lear really stand at the edge of a great cliff? Or has the Fool deceived him to save his life?

Virginia Postrel

#4. He that has a little tiny wit,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
Must make content with his fortunes fit,
Though the rain it raineth every day.

William Shakespeare

#5. I was one of those people who wasn't getting a lot of milk, so I had to pump forever to just get two ounces of milk. But, you know, I wasn't going to give up or stop.

Laila Ali

#6. We all remember the fool who, almost alone, was true to Lear, but, then, of course, he was a fool.

William Shakespeare

#7. I am even
The natural fool of fortune.

William Shakespeare

#8. Bruce Norris came in twice to audition for 'The Corrections' and subsequently spent many months negotiating every point in a four-year agreement to appear in the show.

Scott Rudin

#9. Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. ... In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches and the media by transforming the consciousness of society.

Antonio Gramsci

#10. The economists all think that if you show up at the cashier's cage with enough currency, God will put more oil in ground,

Kenneth S. Deffeyes

#11. Fool:
"He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health,
a boy's love, or a whore's oath."
King Lear (III, vi, 19-21)

William Shakespeare

#12. Every government is always growing corrupt.

Wendell Phillips

#13. Write the story. Don't write sentences.

James Patterson

#14. If there are problems with the subtle physical body, it's very hard for the kundalini to flow.

Frederick Lenz

#15. Vice is punished, but virtue is not rewarded

George Orwell

#16. The Flavr Savr wasn't about taste at all; that was just the name. It was about the shape and the shipability of it. My dad's company was all about flavor. His tomatoes are some of the best selling at Trader Joe's and Whole Foods.

Sanjay Rawal

#17. If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will probably be about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised by the other.

Abraham Lincoln

#18. Her throat tightened as she reminded herself that she might have been making love, but he had been having sex. She

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#19. Kent. Who's there?
Fool. Marry, here's grace and a cod-piece; that's a wise man and a fool.

William Shakespeare

#20. Nothing anywhere could be better than being at home with the home folks, she was sure.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#21. Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form.

E. M. Forster

#22. What is your name?" asked Lear.
Caius," said Kent.
And whence do you hail?"
From Bonking, sire."
Well, yes, lad, as do we all," said Lear, "but from what town?

Christopher Moore