"For 'tis the sport to have the..." - Quote by William Shakespeare
For 'tis the sport to have the engineerHoist with his own petard.
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“So doth the greater glory dim the less:A substitute shines brightly as a kingUntil a king be by.”
“Officers, what offence have these men done? DOGBERRY Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves.”
“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.”
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“I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded, and that their pride makes them refuse to surrender till the last moment and shrink from giving expression to their feelings before you. to have guessed the truth from the timidity with which she had repeatedly approached her sarcasm, only bringing herself to utter it at last with an effort.”
“Even evangelicals realize that Pinocchio's father was a carpenter too. That's the old joke.”
“How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.”
More on Consequences
“If you will be hard on yourself, life will be easy on you. But if you insist upon being easy on yourself, life is going to be very hard on you.”
“One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.”
“Nothing comes into being without a cause and when all the conditions are created, there is nothing that can prevent the consequence.”