Quotes About Drollery

#1. I like to be perfectly open and sincere, and yet it is impossible to be sincere to all of one's self at once, so for the deepest understanding one must seek those with whom one can be most truly one's self and never be blind to the ineffable drollery of it all.

Everett Ruess

#2. Tristram Shandy may perhaps go on a little longer, but we will not follow him. With all his drollery there is a sameness of extravagance which tires us. We have just a succession of Surprise, surprise, surprise.

David Hume

#3. That fatal drollery called a representative government.

Benjamin Disraeli

#4. I have always been Fred Durst and I've always been me.

Fred Durst

#5. History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Ronald Reagan

#6. It sounded somewhat doom-laden, so I felt obliged to look it up more thoroughly, in case I should eat some chocolate rather quickly.

Carol Anne Dobson

#7. No one's supposed to be the president. This is not England. And it's not just the Bush family, all families designate each child as having some particular trait.

Fran Lebowitz

#8. It's assumed we'll be giving a present together
that's what couples are supposed to do. After a while, you become part of a proper noun. We're Daniel-and-Mandy.

David Levithan

#9. Everybody know death is inevitably coming, but it never fails to catch everybody by surprise everytime one is going

Hlovate

#10. Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit on paper, that something about it demands it be heard out loud or witnessed in person.

Sarah Kay

#11. My mother set to work whilst i was 7 and I loved looking to make her really feel badly about it. Ultimately, I matured and was once very pleased with my mom as my parent and the career she had constructed for herself.

Heather McDonald

#12. The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.

John Jewel

#13. Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men.

Marcus Porcius Cato